The Man Who Invented the Calendar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Man Who Invented the Calendar write by B. J. Novak. This book was released on 2014-04-03. The Man Who Invented the Calendar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Man Who Invented the Calendar provides a taster of the darkly hilarious treasures that can be found in B. J. Novak's One More Thing. We'll meet a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; find out how February got its name; and learn the truth about the icing on carrot cake.
One More Thing
One More Thing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook One More Thing write by B. J. Novak. This book was released on 2014-02-04. One More Thing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New York Times Bestseller A startlingly original debut from the actor, writer, director, and executive producer hailed as “a gifted observer of the human condition and a very funny writer capable of winning that rare thing: unselfconscious, insuppressible laughter” (The Washington Post). A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover that claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins—turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook. Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just . . . down. Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, One More Thing has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element just that might make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of the reader.
The Story of Clocks and Calendars
The Story of Clocks and Calendars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story of Clocks and Calendars write by Betsy Maestro. This book was released on 2004-11-02. The Story of Clocks and Calendars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Travel through time with the maestros as they explore the amazing history of timekeeping! Did you know that there is more than one calendar? While the most commonly used calendar was on the year 2000, the Jewish calendar said it was the year 5760, while the Muslim calendar said 1420 and the Chinese calendar said 4698. Why do these differences exist? How did ancient civilizations keep track of time? When and how were clocks first invented? Find answers to all these questions and more in this incredible trip through history.
It's About Time
It's About Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook It's About Time write by Liz Evers. This book was released on 2013-08-25. It's About Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With time-related anecdotes, quotes and trivia, this is an essential handbook for anyone fascinated by the fourth dimension.
Divining the Etruscan World
Divining the Etruscan World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Divining the Etruscan World write by Jean MacIntosh Turfa. This book was released on 2012-07-16. Divining the Etruscan World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar is a rare document of omens foretold by thunder. It long lay hidden, embedded in a Greek translation within a Byzantine treatise from the age of Justinian. The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, this book provides an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text, especially the Etruscans' concerns regarding the environment, food, health and disease. Jean MacIntosh Turfa also analyzes the ancient Near Eastern sources of the Calendar and the subjects of its predictions, thereby creating a picture of the complexity of Etruscan society reaching back before the advent of writing and the recording of the calendar.
