The Girl in the Picture: A Play in Two Acts

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Judas Iscariot/ A Miracle Play In Two Acts, With Other Poems

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The Girl Who Played Go Vintage Publishing

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As the Japanese military invades 1930s Manchuria, a young girl approaches her own sexual coming of age. Drawn into a complex triangle with two boys, she distracts herself from the onslaught of adulthood by playing the game of go with strangers in a public square--and yet the force of desire, like the occupation, proves inevitable. Unbeknownst to the girl who plays go, her most worthy and frequent opponent is a Japanese soldier in disguise. Captivated by her beauty as much as by her bold, unpredictable approach to the strategy game, the soldier finds his loyalties challenged. Is there room on the path to war for that most revolutionary of acts: falling in love?

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The Foundations of Statistics Dover Publications Inc.

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1. INTRODUCTION 1. The role of foundations 2. Historical background 3. General outline of this book2. PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS ON DECISION IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY 1. Introduction 2. The person 3. "The world, and states of the world" 4. Events 5. "Consequences, acts, and decisions" 6. The simple ordering of acts with respect to preference 7. The sure-thing principle3. PERSONAL PROBABILITY 1. Introduction 2. Qualitative personal probability 3. Quantitative personal probability 4. Some mathematical details 5. "Conditional probability, qualitative and quantitative" 6. The approach to certainty through experience 7. Symmetric sequences of events4. CRITICAL COMMENTS ON PERSONAL PROBABILITY 1. Introduction 2. Some shortcomings of the personalistic view 3. Connection with other views 4. Criticism of other views 5. The role of symmetry in probability 6. How can science use a personalistic view of probability?5. UTILITY 1. Introduction 2. Gambles 3. "Utility, and preference among gambles" 4. The extension of utility to more general acts 5. Small worlds 6. Historical and critical comments on utility6. OBSERVATION 1. Introduction 2. What an observation is 3. "Multiple observations, and extensions of observations and of sets of acts" 4. Dominance and admissibility 5. Outline of the design of experiments7. PARTITION PROBLEMS 1. Introduction 2. Structure of (twofold) partition problems 3. The value of observation 4. "Extension of observations, and sufficient statistics" 5. Likelihood ratios 6. Repeated observations 7. Sequential probability ratio procedures 8. "Standard form, and absolute comparison between observations"8. STATISTICS PROPER 1. Introduction 2. What is statistics proper? 3. Multipersonal problems 4. The minimax theory9. INTRODUCTION TO THE MINIMAX THEORY 1. Introduction 2. The behavioralistic outlook 3. Mixed acts 4. Income and loss 5. "The minimax rule, and the principle of admissibility" 6. Illustrations of the minimax rule 7. Objectivistic motivation of the minimax rule 8. Loss as opposed to negative income in the minimax rule10. A PERSONALISTIC REINTERPRETATION OF THE MINIMAX THEORY 1. Introduction 2. A model of group decision 3. "The group minimax rule, and the group principle of admissibility" 4. Critique of the group minimax rule11. THE PARALLELISM BETWEEN THE MINIMAX THEORY AND THE THEORY OF TWO-PERSON GAMES 1. Introduction 2. Standard games 3. Minimax play 4. Parallelism and contrast with the minimax theories12. THE MATHEMATICS OF MINIMAX PROBLEMS 1. Introduction 2. Abstract games 3. Bilinear games 4. An example of a bilinear game 5. Bilinear games exhibiting symmetry13. OJBECTIONS TO THE MINIMAX RULES 1. Introduction 2. A confusion between loss and negative income 3. Utility and the minimax rule 4. Almost sub-minimax acts 5. The minimax rule does not generate a simple ordering14. THE MINIMAX THEORY APPLIED TO OBSERVATIONS 1. Introduction 2. Recapitulation of partition problems 3. Sufficient statistics 4. "Simple dichotomy, an example" 5. The approach to certainty 6. Cost of observation 7. Sequential probability ratio procedures 8. Randomization 9. Mixed acts in statistics15. POINT ESTIMATION 1. Introduction 2. The verbalistic concept of point estimation 3. Examples of problems of point estimation 4. Criteria that have been proposed for point estimates 5. A behavioralistic review of the criteria for point estimation 6. "A behavioralistic review, continued" 7. "A behavioralistic review, concluded"16. TESTING 1. Introduction 2. A theory of testing 3. Testing in practice17. INTERVAL ESTIMATION AND RELATED TOPICS 1. Estimates of the accuracy of estimates 2. Interval estimation and confidence intervals 3. Tolerance intervals 4. Fiducial probability APPENDIX 1. EXPECTED VALUE APPENDIX 2. CONVEX FUNCTIONS APPENDIX 3. BIBLIOGRAPHIC MATERIAL APPENDIX 4. BIBLIOGRAPHIC SUPPLEMENT TECHNICAL SYMBOLS AUTHOR INDEX GENERAL INDEX

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Sąd ostateczny - Anna Klejzerowicz

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Opis - Charyzmatyczny, obdarzony nieprzeciętną intuicją dziennikarz w pojedynku z naśladowcą Hansa Memlinga. Emil Żądło, który zrezygnował z pracy w policji na rzecz dziennikarstwa, przeżywa kryzys. Kryzys wieloraki: związany z pracą, z brakiem natchnienia na nowy artykuł, z finansami, z uczuciami, z życiem w ogóle... Za ostatnie pieniądze kupuje alkohol i papierosy, nie ma siły wstać z łóżka i wziąć się w garść, a na dodatek jego była żona utrudnia mu kontakty z synem i męczy o zaległe alimenty. Wszystko się zmienia, gdy któregoś razu w nocnym pubie spotyka córkę swojej starej sąsiadki, Dorotę. Młoda kobieta i jej narzeczony tej samej nocy zostają brutalnie zamordowani w niejasnych okolicznościach. Zaintrygowany Emil postanawia pomóc policji w śledztwie. "Emil Żądło to świetnie skonstruowana postać, która od pierwszej chwili wzbudziła moją sympatię." Agnieszka Lingas-Łoniewska, autorka m. in. trylogii Zakręty losu, Szóstego, Łatwopalnych i Brudnego świata Nazwa - Sąd ostateczny Autor - Anna Klejzerowicz Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Replika Kod ISBN - 9788376742878 Kod EAN - 9788376742878 Wydanie - 1 Rok wydania - 2014 Język - polski Format - 13.0x20.0cm Ilość stron - 316 Podatek VAT - 5% Premiera - 2014-05-06

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Consolations of Philosophy Penguin

Nauki humanistyczne

Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on some of the things that bother us all; lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety, the fear of failure and the pressure to conform.

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White Dwarf 475 2022 Games Workshop

Modelarstwo i Gry>Książki i Czasopisma

160-stronicowy White Dwarf - magazyn wypełniony informacjami na temat Waszych ulubionych gier!White Dwarf is Games Workshop's premium Warhammer magazine, packed with amazing content each month including new rules and background, short stories, regular columns, special guests, and more.Contact!Letters, painting advice and beautifully painted miniatures. This issue: Necrons, vampires, and a question about souls.Worlds of WarhammerHeirs of Reason author and studio background writer Callum Davis joins us to talk about Greyshields.Inside the StudioHere

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PUG TAROT DECK PUG&DUCK Verlag

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These cards are based on the classic tarot deck. A special feature of this game is - besides the pug illustrations - two additional cards which are "The Loyalty" and "The Unicorn". In addition, special laying techniques can be used for interpretation, which we developed especially for the Mops Tarot. You can ask the Mops Tarot cards by using the formation of the Bowl or the Paw or - even with more detail - the decision of the Unicorn. The cards can be asked in many ways, for example using the very classic oracle type according to tendencies. "The Paw" is very well suited for this, or for in between "the little bone", also to describe a current state or to recognize alternative perspectives. Current thoughts and questions that concern us can be focused well with the decision of the unicorn.This Mops Tarot deck differs in its symbolism from the classic tarot game. This is due to the Mops who of course is involved in all Major and Minor Arcana. The following symbols apply to him:The mandatory pentacles are represented in this deck as Sausages (Würste). Why is that? Because the pentacle (coin) is only valuable to humans, for a dog or even a pug it is worthless. A sausage, however, carries great value for our classic Tarot pug.The swords convert to bones (Knochen) in the Mops Tarot. This is due to the fact that a pug can play, nibble, or fight in play with a bone - not with a sword.Here, cups turn obviously into bowls (Napf). Their meaning is at least as big as the one of the sausages. Of course, it is of great importance, if these bowls are filled - with food or treats - or if they are empty or even knocked over...The wands turn into sticks (Stöckchen). Explaining is unnecessary in this case due to the Tarot Wand being way too long for the pug. But with a little stick he has a lot more options. The Tarot Mops can play with it, show off, threaten, fight, or even nibble on it. 24 cards represent the Major Arcana, which show the wisdom of the Tarot through their symbols. The Minor Mops Arcana cover 56 cards that are divided into four suits. Each of these suits consist of 10 pip cards and 4 court cards.The court cards contain Mops Page, Mops Knight, Mops Queen and Mops King. Character traits are assigned to the cards which are determined and refined by the symbolism of the Mops Tarot elements sausages, bones, bowls, and sticks:All Mops Pages symbolize character traits such as being childlike, immature, playful and carefree. These traits can be interpreted as persons with these characteristics, often however, they also indicate opportunities.Mops Knights symbolize impulsiveness, emotionality and sometimes aggression depending on the context. The young adult or teenager who wants to achieve his goals but acts impulsively and uncontrollably finds its definition in the Mops Knight. As already mentioned, an interpretation can describe people with these characteristics, but often moods and dispositions can be referred to.The Mops Queens represent femininity, emotion, and intuition. Depending on the element that is related, the characteristic of this card is refined. Therefore, the Mops Queen of bones is much braver and bolder than the Mops Queen of bowls, who due to the element of water acts more reserved, emotional, and intuitive. During an interpretation the Mops Queens may symbolize persons that surround us with these features, and sometimes even us.Strength, power, authority are the characteristics of the Mops Kings. Just as mentioned for the Mops Queens, the interpretation of a Mops King card depends on the particular element that joins the Mops King for his attribute. Therefore, the Mops King of bones will be dominant and self-conscious, while the Mops King of bowls is more empathic, vulnerable, and sensitive. During an interpretation the Mops Kings may symbolize persons that surround us with these features, and sometimes even us.

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Shadow of the Sun Penguin

Literatura faktu

'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. It is both a sustained meditation on the mosaic of peoples and practises we call 'Africa', and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination, from the intoxications of freedom, from war and from politics as theft. The Beginning: Collision, Ghana 1958 More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun. Just yesterday, an autumnal London was drenched in rain. The airplane drenched in rain. A cold, wind, darkness. But here, from the morning

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Each Peach Pear Plum VICH

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Each Peach Pear Plum - the classic picture book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Each Peach Pear Plum is a timeless picture book classic from the bestselling illustrator/author team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo. Each beautifully illustrated page encourages young children to interact with the picture to find the next fairy tale and nursery rhyme character. This board book edition is perfect for little hands. In this book With your little eye, Take a look, And play 'I spy'. Praise for Each Peach Pear Plum: "Deceptively simple. Each Peach Pear Plum is a work of genius". (Elaine Moss). "This familiar rhyme has been given the brilliant Ahlbreg treatment to which no young child can fail to respond. It's a book which will be read over and over again ...just perfect!". (Child Education). "A charming, pictorial fantasia ...a warm, sunny, delectable picture book". (Brian Alderson, The Times). Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books and with his late wife Janet, created many award-winning children's picture books. The Baby's Catalogue was inspired by their daughter, Jessica.The Ahlbergs' books are nursery bookshelf standards and have been the recipient of worldwide acclaim and awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal. Look out for these other classics by Allan Ahlberg: Burglar Bill; Cops and Robbers; The Baby's Catalogue; The One and Only Two Heads; Son of a Gun; The Little Worm Book; Two Wheels Two Heads; Funny Bones; A Pair of Sinners; Happy Families; Peepo!; The Ha Ha Bonk Book; Help Your Child to Read; Ten in a Bed; Please mrs Butler; Daisy Chains; Yum Yum; Playmates; Foldaways; Woof; The Cinderella Show; The Jolly Postman; The Jolly Christmas Postman. It also include The Jolly Pocket Postman; The Clothes Horse and Other Stories; The Mighty Slide; Starting School; Heard it in the Playground; The Bear Nobody Wanted; It was a Dark and Stormy Night; The Giant Baby; Baby Sleeps; Blue Buggy; Doll and Teddy; See the Rabbit; Please Mrs Butler; The Better Brown Stories; and, The Boyhood of Burglar Bill.

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Each Peach Pear Plum Penguin Random House Children's UK

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"Each Peach Pear Plum" - the classic picture book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. "Each Peach Pear Plum" is a timeless picture book classic from the bestselling illustrator/author team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of "Peepo!". Each beautifully illustrated page encourages young children to interact with the picture to find the next fairy tale and nursery rhyme character. In this book with your little eye, take a look, and play 'I spy'. Praise for "Each Peach Pear Plum": "Deceptively simple. "Each Peach Pear Plum" is a work of genius". (Elaine Moss). "This familiar rhyme has been given the brilliant Ahlbreg treatment to which no young child can fail to respond. It's a book which will be read over and over again ...just perfect!" (Child Education). "A charming, pictorial fantasia ...a warm, sunny, delectable picture book". (Brian Alderson, "The Times"). Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books and with his late wife Janet, created many award-winning children's picture books. "The Baby's Catalogue" was inspired by their daughter, Jessica.The Ahlbergs' books are nursery bookshelf standards and have been the recipient of worldwide acclaim and awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal. Look out for these other classics by Allan Ahlberg: "Burglar Bill"; "Cops and Robbers"; "The Baby's Catalogue"; "The One and Only Two Heads"; "Son of a Gun"; "The Little Worm Book"; "Two Wheels Two Heads"; "Funny Bones"; "A Pair of Sinners"; "Happy Families"; "Peepo!"; "The Ha Ha Bonk Book"; "Help Your Child to Read"; "Ten in a Bed"; "Please mrs Butler"; "Daisy Chains"; "Yum Yum"; "Playmates"; "Foldaways"; "Woof"; "The Cinderella Show"; "The Jolly Postman"; "The Jolly Christmas Postman"; "The Jolly Pocket Postman"; "The Clothes Horse and Other Stories"; "The Mighty Slide"; "Starting School"; "Heard it in the Playground"; "The Bear Nobody Wanted"; "It was a Dark and Stormy Night"; "The Giant Baby"; "Baby Sleeps"; "Blue Buggy"; "Doll and Teddy"; "See the Rabbit"; "Please Mrs Butler"; "The Better Brown Stories"; "The Boyhood of Burglar Bill".

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Prawo zamówień publicznych - Praca zbiorowa

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Opis - Publikacja zawiera ustawę Prawo zamówień publicznych z uwzględnieniem najnowszych zmian wchodzących w życie 1 lipca 2015 r. Zamieszczony w tomie akt prawny cieszy się stałym zainteresowaniem osób prowadzących działalność gospodarczą i uczestniczących w przetargach. Dodano najnowsze przepisy odnoszące się do zamówień publicznych dotyczących Specjalnej Strefy Rewitalizacji. Zaletą książki jest jej praktyczny, poręczny format i przejrzysty układ graficzny. Stan prawny: 1 stycznia 2016 r. Nazwa - Prawo zamówień publicznych Autor - Praca zbiorowa Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Od.Nowa Kod ISBN - 9788365101518 Kod EAN - 9788365101518 Wydanie - 2 Rok wydania - 2016 Język - polski Format - 10.8x17.8cm Ilość stron - 152 Podatek VAT - 5% Premiera - 2016-02-18

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Letter from America Penguin

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When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letters from America, which began in 1946 and continued uninterrupted every week until early 2004, kept the world in touch with what was happening in Cooke's wry, liberal and humane style. This selection, made largely by Cooke himself and supplemented by his literary executor, gives us the very best of these legendary broadcasts. Over half have never appeared in print before. It is a remarkable portrait of a continent - and a man. Fred Astaire 26 June 1987 Movie stars don't make it. Nor statesmen. Not Prime Ministers, or dictators unless they die in office. Not even a world-famous rock star, unless he's assassinated. But last Monday, none of the three national television networks hesitated about the story that would lead the evening news. On millions of little screens in this country and I don't doubt in many other countries around the world, the first shots were of an imp, a graceful wraith, a firefly in impeccable white tie and tails. And for much longer than the lead story usually runs, for a full five minutes on NBC, we were given a loving retrospective of the dead man, ending with the firm declaration by Nureyev that 'He was not just the best ballroom dancer, or tap dancer, he was simply the greatest, most imaginative, dancer of our time.' And the newsmen were right to remind us of the immortal comment of the Hollywood mogul, who, with the no-nonsense directness of an expert, reported on Fred Astaire's first film test: 'Has enormous ears, can't act, can't sing, dances a little.' That Hollywood mogul, long gone, spent his life ducking round corners, to avoid being identified as the oaf who looked in the sky and never saw the brightest star. However, that expert opinion was, as the lawyers say, controlling at the time and in Astaire's first movies, there was no thought of allowing him to act or sing. But not for long. And thanks to the invention of television, and the need to fill vast stretches of the afternoon and night with old movies, it has been possible for my daughter, for instance, to claim Fred Astaire as her favourite film star from the evidence of all the movies he made fifteen, ten, five, three years before she was born. When I got the news on Monday evening here, and realized with immediate professional satisfaction that the BBC had smartly on hand a musical obituary tribute to him I put together eight years ago, I couldn't help recalling the casual, comic way this and similar radio obituaries came about. I was in London at the end of 1979, and Richard Rodgers - one of the two or three greatest of American songwriters - had just died, I believe on New Year's Eve or the night before. Britons, by then, were getting accustomed, without pain, to making what used to be a two-day Christmas holiday into a ten-day much-needed rest. For all laborious research purposes, the BBC was shut up. And there was no retrospective programme on the life and music of Richard Rodgers in the BBC's archives. Of course, in a gramophone library that looks like an annex to the Pentagon, there were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of recordings of his songs. The SOS went out to a writer, a producer, and - I presume - a man who had the key to the gramophone library. The silent place was unlocked, and the three of them laboured through the day to put together an hour's tribute to Richard Rodgers. It was done. It was competent enough, but rushed to an impossible deadline. This hasty improvisation happened just when my own music producer and I, who had enjoyed working together for six years or so on American popular music, were wondering what we could offer next. We'd done a sketch history of jazz, through individuals. We'd gone through all the popular music of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, and were stumped for a new series, at which point I asked if we mightn't go and talk to the head of the channel, network or whatever. We went in, and the genial boss asked me what we had in mind. 'A morgue,' I said. A what? 'Where', I asked, 'is your morgue?' He was not familiar with the word, a newspaper term. 'Well,' I said, 'all newspapers have them.' 'How d'you mean?' 'If, I explained, 'Mrs Thatcher died tonight and you woke up and read a two-sentence obituary, you'd be rightly outraged. But if you saw a two-page obituary, you'd take it for granted. When d'you suppose it was written?' 'That's right,' he said thoughtfully. What I was proposing was a morgue of the Americans eminent in popular music and jazz, so they'd not get caught short again. A splendid idea, the man said; pick your stars. We made a list and were commissioned to return to America and finish all of them. Naturally, we looked at a calendar, and birthdates of Hoagy Carmichael, Earl Hines, Harold Arlen, Ethel Merman, Stephane Grappelli, Ella Fitzgerald. But then, in a spasm of panic, we thought of two giants - if the word can be used about two comparative midgets: Irving Berlin and Fred Astaire. Berlin was then 91. And Fred Astaire was just crowding 80. The boss man, to whom the idea of a morgue had been, only a few minutes before, quaint if not morbid, wondered what we were waiting for. Better get busy, at once, on Berlin and then on Astaire. I remember doing the Astaire obit, then and there, while I was still in London. Meanwhile, we'd simply pray every night that the Lord would keep Irving Berlin breathing till I could get home and get busy. I remember being picked up in a car by a charming young girl to get to the BBC and record my Astaire narration - there wasn't a moment to lose. She asked me, in the car, what the script was that I was clutching. 'It's an obituary', I said, 'of Fred Astaire.' 'Fred Astaire,' she shrieked, 'dead?' and almost swerved into a bus. 'Of course, he's not dead,' I said, 'but he's going to be one day.' She, too, was new to the institution of a morgue. I recalled that when I was a correspondent for a British paper in the United States, and when for example. Dean Acheson was appointed Secretary of State, the first cable I had from my editor said, 'Welcome Acheson obituary soonest.' How ghoulish, she said. I imagine that to two generations at least, it's assumed that Fred Astaire, this slim, pop-eyed newcomer to Hollywood who couldn't act, couldn't sing, danced a little, only made a fool of the mogul through the movies he made, with Ginger Rogers, in the mid- and late 1930s. But long before then, from the mid-1920s on, he was already an incomparable star - as a dancer - to theatre audiences both in New York and in London. Perhaps more in London than anywhere, certainly in the 1920s, with the early Gershwin hits, Funny Face and Lady Be Good, and lastly, in 1933, in Cole Porter's Gay Divorce (which was the title of the theatre show; Hollywood would not then allow so shocking a title and called the movie version, The Gay Divorcee). Of all the thousands of words that have been written this week, and will be written, there is a passage I went back to on Tuesday night which, I think, as well as anything I know, sums up Astaire's overall appeal - the appeal that takes in but transcends one's admiration for his dancing and for his inimitably intimate singing style. This was written in November 1933, by a theatre critic who had so little feel for dancing that he marvelled why London should go on about 'Mr Astaire's doing well enough what the Tiller Girls at Blackpool do superbly'. The critic, the writer, was James Agate, the irascible, dogmatic, opinionated but brilliant journalist, and I believe the best critic of acting we have had this century. He is writing his review of Gay Divorce, after declaring yet again his contempt for musical comedy as an entertainment for idiots, deploring the play's plot and the acting and hoping 'Micawberishly, for something to turn up'. 'Presently,' he wrote, 'Mr Fred Astaire obliged, and there is really no more to be said.' Except

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Fool Proof HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and Susan Cain's Quiet, Fool Proof tracks the implications of the sucker construct from personal choices to cultural conflict, ultimately charting an unexpected and empowering path forward.In the American moral vernacular, we have a whole thesaurus for victims of exploitation. They are suckers (born every minute), fools (not suffered gladly), dupes, marks, chumps, pawns, and losers. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Cultural stories about suckers abound too: the Trojan Horse, the Boy Who Cried Wolf, the Emperor's New Clothes, even Hansel and Gretel. If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. Don't go out with him; he only wants one thing. The fear of playing the fool is not just a descriptive fact; it is a prescriptive theme: Don't let that be you. Most of us are constantly navigating two sets of imperatives: how to be successful and how to be good. The fear of being suckered whispers that you can't do both, operating as a quiet caution against leaps of faith and acts of altruism. University of Pennsylvania law professor and moral psychologist Tess Wilkinson-Ryan brings evidence from studies in psychology, sociology, and economics to show how the sucker construct shapes, and distorts, human decision-making. Fool Proof offers the first in-depth analysis of the sucker's game as implicit worldview, drawing evidence everywhere from grocery shopping to international trade deals, from road rage to #MeToo. Offering real-world puzzles and stories, Wilkinson-Ryan explores what kinds of hustles feel like scams and which ones feel like business as usual, who gets pegged as suckers and who gets lauded as saints. She takes deep dives into areas like the psychology of stereotyping, the history of ethnic slurs, and the economics of the family-and shows how the threat of being suckered is deployed to perpetuate social and economic hierarchies. Ultimately, Fool Proof argues that the goal is not so much to spot the con as to renegotiate its meaning. The fear of being suckered can be weaponized to disrupt cooperation and trust, but it can also be defused and reframed to make space for moral agency and social progress. Facing the fear of being suckered head-on means deciding for ourselves what risks to take, what relationships to invest in, when to share, and when to protest-drafting a new template for how to live with integrity in a sucker's world.

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Penelope Douglas - Rival Little, Brown Book Group

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Madoc and Fallon. Two estranged teenagers playing games that push the boundaries between love and war ...She's back. For the three years she's been away at boarding school, there was no word from her. Back when we lived in the same house, she used to cut me down during the day and then leave her door open for me at night. I was stupid then, but now I'm ready to beat her at her own game ...I'm back. Three years and I can tell he still wants me, even if he acts like he's better than me. But I won't be scared away. Or pushed down. I'll call his bluff and fight back.That's what he wants, right? As long as I keep my guard up, he'll never know how much he affects me ...Praise for the Fall Away Series 'I read this book in one sitting. Rival was as gripping as it was sexy!' #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover 'Full of feeling and intensity that will appeal to the reader seeking an emotional rush' IndieReader'I was really craving a book that would make me stop everything I was supposed to be doing and devour every word ...and that's exactly what Bully did!' Smitten Book Blog 'A unique twist on the bad boy meets good girl tale. I could not put it down!' Aestas Book Blog 'She did something seasoned writers haven't been able to do - take a hero who was a complete ass and make me fall in love with him' Scandalicious Book Reviews

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