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'The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what
takes a little longer,' said Fridtj of Nansen, who personally
repatriated more than 400,000 prisoners of war after World War I
and helped save millions of Russians from starvation. Albert
Einstein prudently advised, 'Not everything that counts can be
counted, and not everything that can be counted counts' and Cseslaw
Milosz warned, 'In a room where people unanimously maintain a
conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol
shot.' Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been the hallmark of genius,
but Nobel laureates tend to be more than merely brilliant - their
idealism, courage and concern for humanity have also made them
sources of inspiration and wisdom. Contrary to the notion that
geniuses are absentminded eccentrics, many Nobel laureates have
been social activists and political leaders, and some have been
polymaths whose interests and talents were diverse, such as Philip
Noel-Baker, winner of the 1959 Peace Prize, who ran in three
Olympic Games. The quotations here are grouped by such themes as
achievement, truth and falsehood, war and conflict, technology, and
most have never been anthologised previously.
A light-hearted collection of drawings and rhymes that reflect the
complex and multi-faceted nature of the human condition in a
humorous manner. || Open our book and savour each page, | Join our
Fantabunals on a sunlit stage, | Happily sharing their inner lives
- | Feelings of joy, passion and strife. || That's all it is, yet
so much more: | A flow of verses and colours galore! | Enter our
world of hues and stanzas, | A show just for you, an extravaganza!
|| Here you might find that you're not alone | In your hopes and
dreams or fears and groans, | And in reading our rhymes (strictly
no prose!) | May you find a moment of gentle repose.
Trailer-trash superbrain Jim Goad is back with another vituperous
observation of humanity and its associated idiocies: a
no-holds-barred lambast of every sexual more on the planet.
Two Books in one! Episodes 13 & 14 in the hit Bad Guys series -
soon to be a feature film animation. "I wish I'd had these books as
a kid. Hilarious!" - Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and
Dog Man They sound like the Bad Guys, they look like the Bad Guys
... and they even smell like the Bad Guys. But Mr Wolf, Mr Piranha,
Mr Snake and Mr Shark are about to change all of that - whether you
want them to or not! EPISODE THIRTEEN: CUT TO THE CHASE A
MYSTERIOUS DOORWAY! (Sure, it's in the grossest restaurant in the
world, but that doesn't make it any less mysterious. OK?) Behold!
What lies beyond?! An evil centipede? An alternate universe? A few
decent explanations? VRRRING! NING! NING! NING! Hey, was that a
CHAINSAW?! Let's see if you can read and run at the same time...
GO! It's the Bad Guys' next adventure! EPISODE FOURTEEN: THEY'RE
BEE-HIND YOU! POP QUIZ! You are on the roof of a skyscraper. Every
floor of that building has nasty things that just don't like you.
And you REALLY need to get to the basement. Whaddaya do?! (And no,
you can't just join the B-Team and fly away in their glamorous new
spaceship.) Think quick, chico, because the multiverse is getting
worse! ABOUT THE SERIES Full of hilarious line illustrations
throughout Fans of Dog Man, Cat Kid and Captain Underpants will
love this series Perfect for children who a struggling with reading
- or who just want to laugh their socks off The Bad Guys feature
length animation will release in UK cinemas on 1 April 2022 Praise
for The Bad Guys: "[T]his book instantly joins the classic ranks of
Captain Underpants... We challenge anyone to read this and keep a
straight face." - Kirkus Reviews BOOKS INCLUDED IN THIS TWO BOOK
BIND-UP EDITION Episode 13: Cut to the Chase Episode 14: They're
Bee-hind You!
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