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Review Date: 2/13/2006
Helpful Score: 2
Pretty predictable formula, but I actually enjoyed this more than The DaVinci Code.
Review Date: 7/14/2006
Grades 1-4.
Review Date: 4/24/2006
If you enjoyed "The Glass Castle," this book has a similar feel to it.
Review Date: 11/28/2006
Helpful Score: 1
VERY adult content!! The Jaid Black story was my favorite.
A First-Year Teacher's Guidebook for Success: A Step-By-Step Educational Recipe Book from September to June
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Book Type: Paperback
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Book Type: Paperback
4
Review Date: 7/15/2006
From back cover..."a unique reference book, a resource book and an encouraging companion to be used by ALL teachers through the year."
Review Date: 7/25/2006
This was surprisingly good!
Review Date: 7/15/2006
I love Calvin & Hobbes! One of the best comic strips.
Review Date: 7/12/2006
Book Description:
What can you do when the world is pushing you over the edge? More than you think.
For some of us, its the automated voice that answers the phone when wed rather talk to a real person. For others, its the fact that Starbucks insists on calling its smallest-sized coffee tall. Or perhaps its those pesky subscription cards that fall out of magazines. Whatever it is, each of us finds some aspect of everyday life to be particularly maddening, and we often long to lash out at these stubborn irritants of modern life.
In Lifes Little Annoyances, Ian Urbina chronicles the lengths to which some people will go when they have endured their pet peeves long enough and are not going to take it any more. It is a compendium of human inventiveness, by turns juvenile and petty, but in other ways inspired and deeply satisfying. We meet the junk-mail recipient who sends back unwanted business reply envelopes weighted down with sheet metal, so the mailers will have to pay the postage. We commiserate with the woman who was fed up with the colleague who kept helping himself to her lunch cookies, so she replaced them with dog biscuits that looked like biscotti. And we revel in the seemingly endless number of tactics people use to vent their anger at telemarketers, loud cellphone talkers, spammers, and others who impose themselves on us.
A celebration of the endless variety of passive aggressive behavior, Lifes Little Annoyances will provide comfort and inspiration to everyone who has ever gritted his teeth and dreamed of sweet retribution against the slings and arrows of outrageous people.
What can you do when the world is pushing you over the edge? More than you think.
For some of us, its the automated voice that answers the phone when wed rather talk to a real person. For others, its the fact that Starbucks insists on calling its smallest-sized coffee tall. Or perhaps its those pesky subscription cards that fall out of magazines. Whatever it is, each of us finds some aspect of everyday life to be particularly maddening, and we often long to lash out at these stubborn irritants of modern life.
In Lifes Little Annoyances, Ian Urbina chronicles the lengths to which some people will go when they have endured their pet peeves long enough and are not going to take it any more. It is a compendium of human inventiveness, by turns juvenile and petty, but in other ways inspired and deeply satisfying. We meet the junk-mail recipient who sends back unwanted business reply envelopes weighted down with sheet metal, so the mailers will have to pay the postage. We commiserate with the woman who was fed up with the colleague who kept helping himself to her lunch cookies, so she replaced them with dog biscuits that looked like biscotti. And we revel in the seemingly endless number of tactics people use to vent their anger at telemarketers, loud cellphone talkers, spammers, and others who impose themselves on us.
A celebration of the endless variety of passive aggressive behavior, Lifes Little Annoyances will provide comfort and inspiration to everyone who has ever gritted his teeth and dreamed of sweet retribution against the slings and arrows of outrageous people.
Review Date: 7/15/2006
Gr 2-6--"Over seventy-five ideas and activities ready for you to use now!...Organizational ideas, explicit instructions, and reproducible activities all make the substitute teacher ready for class." (From back cover)
Review Date: 6/3/2006
A very interesting read. I could barely put it down! Good historical fiction.
Review Date: 4/10/2006
Another great Picoult novel!
Review Date: 6/22/2006
Helpful Score: 4
I was pleasantly surprised with this book. It makes definite, faith-based arguments for some very modern topics without being "preachy". It also tells the story of how a "perfect" family deals with their grief. This is my first book by this author, and I am inclined to look for more books by her.
Review Date: 7/14/2006
"Home Learning Tools" workbook, Gr. 2-3.
Review Date: 7/15/2006
I love Calvin & Hobbes! One of the best comic strips.
Review Date: 4/1/2006
I really enjoyed this account of Sarah's story. It made her seem more a real person, and not just a figure you've read about. I am anxious to read the next books in the series.
Review Date: 2/19/2006
Entertaining read!
Review Date: 12/26/2006
Templates for Word, PP, Excel...includes a CD w/ templates on it as well.
Review Date: 3/26/2006
This is the second book I have read by Jodi Picoult, and I am definitely becoming a fan. This was a good read.
Review Date: 7/14/2006
Published in 1991, thematic activities book, PreK-3.
Review Date: 4/21/2006
This was a fascinating book.
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