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Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour
This here is a follow-up to my first book, "Million Dollar Ideas".
Is it a thousand times greater than my first book as the title
indicates? The answer is yes. Should you buy a thousand copies of
my first book to balance the purchase of this book? If my math is
correct, the answer is yes. Thank you for your support. - Jake
Wozniak
21 short stories, plus a little extra something just to keep things
interesting.
Charlie's introduction to his blog put it best: "A lifetime in
marketing actually equips a man for very little... Now pushing 58,
I realise with some horror that it is a full half century since I
last took cycling remotely seriously. If this trip does not go
well, I might leave it as long until my next attempt. In September
2012, seven friends of varying fitness and circumference,
accompanied by an elderly camper-wagon and driver, are cycling from
France to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain." Despite
being well past their prime they cycled up the equivalent of Mount
Everest plus a bit as they crossed the Pyrenees, the Montes de Oca,
the Montes de Leon, and the Cantabrian Mountains, in the process
expending over 20,000 calories each (according to Susie's iPhone
App), most of which were put back on each evening. They cycled in
the footsteps of 1,000 years of history, marveled at the art and
architecture accumulated over the centuries, and at times crashed
into it. They visited the sites of miracles and pondered their
meaning, and crossed the 200 meter bridge at Hospital de Orbigo
which in 1434 was the site of a month long jousting tournament.
They experienced the highs and lows of triumph and disaster, and
felt compelled to test the efficiency of the Spanish medical
system. Comment on the blog from Barnaby: "God, troops...it is epic
reading and I am on the edge of my seat as I follow your progress
on my map." The De-Caff Camino is in turn amusing, informative,
easy reading and irreverent, and yet is imbued throughout with the
greatest respect for the history and traditions of the Camino and
those who have written their names into its lore. Improbably
arriving at their destination after two weeks and 500 miles on the
road, the author offers some forthright advice to the Vatican on
how to enhance the experience for pilgrims at last achieving their
goal after so much exertion, self-sacrifice and denial. The De-Caff
Camino is an essential and most entertaining addition to the body
of knowledge of The Way of St James.
A collection of mostly humorous short stories about the American
South
Once upon a time, a young grey Rabbit explored a forgotten WW2
chemical dump. Being young and foolish he drank some sweet tasting
liquid. Very soon he was experiencing growing pains and, by the age
of one, was five feet eight inches high and talking English with a
South London accent. He called himself, rather un-originally, Bunny
Warren and become a bit of a Dick; a sleazy, alcoholic, wise
cracking, Private Eye. This is a report of one of the
investigations of Bunny Warren, the Strange Case of the Missing
Ginger. When a lady goes missing from a premier rate call line,
Bunny and his beautiful assistant Jane, go in search of her. Along
the way, they get drawn into a web of bad guys, fiesty females and
a very odd mad scientist.
Everyone wanted to make money in Indian stock
market................... So did Jai, a 44 year rich individual,
with academic and dreamy temperament, who entered stock market in
August 2005 and found himself staring at money running on computers
with help of internet...... Within a short span, he found himself
changing from an investor to a trader to speculator. May 2006,
Sensex crash, and he lost almost all the money earned during 8
months in 10 days. His active academic brain found the key to price
movement of stocks & Idices, which he called Sensex - Nifty
code All one needed was simple mathematical calculations and laws
of speculation to navigate the choppy waves of stock market. He
kept on making & losing money with help of young dealers, till
he found himself at the last leg of bull rally from October 2007-
January 2008...... He knew, he had to abandon stock-market before
it abandoned him. The book is an entertaining blow by blow account
of first speculative boom & bust cycle in Indian stock market
during computer trading era, with mathematical calculations that
were used to take stocks and indices to dizzying heights and ended
in inevitable bust in a precise manner. And, only survivor can tell
the tale without any hesitation.
Ponder, if you will . . . Is yawning contagious? Do starfish
have faces? Why do they put crinkly paper into pairs of men's
socks? Why is it that cans of Diet Coke float, but cans of regular
Coke don't?
Pop culture guru David Feldman demystifies these questions and
much more in "Why Do Pirates Love Parrots? "
One of the Imponderables(R)--the unchallenged source of answers
to civilization's most perplexing conundrums--and charmingly
illustrated by Kassie Schwan, this book provides you with knowledge
about everyday life that encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs
just don't cover. And think about it: Where else are you going to
find out how they get the paper tag into a Hershey's Kiss?
"I will forever cherish the life lessons I learned from Mr.
Mitchell. I learned about love, about tragedy, about overcoming
setbacks and I learned about myself." Shannon Suess "I may not
remember all the poems we read in AP class, but I will remember the
man who taught me a lifelong love for poetry." Edward M. Shine "The
questions you ask are spiritual, they're real, they manifest
themselves in peculiar ways that we may only glimpse once, but
ponder for decades." Andrew Steel "I read the full book in only one
day These stories inspire me to do so much. I can't thank you
enough." Anthony Fertitta "I love all these stories so much, and
their meanings are poignant and relatable." Brendan Thomas Photos
by Cooper Vacheron
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