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Chapters: Phil Edwards, Charles Allen, James Gilkes, Aliann Pompey, Colin Gordon, Ralph Gomes, Adam Harris, Brenda Archer, Mark Mason, Junior Cornette. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Competitor for Canada Philip Aaron "Phil" Edwards, MD (September 13, 1907 September 6, 1971), track and field athlete the "Man of Bronze", was Canada's most-decorated Olympian, the first Black Canadian man to win a trophy at what are now known as the Commonwealth Games, and the first-ever winner of the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's top athlete. He went on to serve as a captain in the Canadian army and as a highly-regarded physician and expert of tropical diseases. Phil Edwards was born in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), to a lawyer who acted as his first running coach. Following secondary school Edwards moved to the United States to pursue his running career, enrolling in New York University in 1926, and attracted attention by setting a number of intercollegiate records in middle-distance events. While Edwards' performance at New York University clearly established him as an Olympic-calibre athlete, he was not eligible to compete for the United States even though he could compete for Canada and also did not have an Olympic team. In 1927 he was invited by Melville Marks (Bobby) Robinson, manager of the Canadian Olympic track and field team, to compete for Canada in the 1928 Summer Olympics, where Edwards won a bronze medal as part of Canada's 4 x 400m relay team. Following Amsterdam, Edwards left New York University to attend Montreal's McGill University as a medical student, where he also competed with university's track team. Edwards also continued his association with Bobby Robinson there, competing for British Guiana in the first-ever Commonwealth Game...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3952811 ... Read more

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In The Dilbert Principle and current bestseller Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook, Scott Adams skewers the absurdities of today's corporate world. Now he takes the next step, turning his keen analytical focus on how human greed, stupidity and horniness will shape the future.

With this book, Adams follows in the footsteps of other great futurists, i.e., sitting at home making stuff up that can't be proven wrong for many years. Featuring the same mix of essays and cartoons that made The Dilbert Principle so uniquely entertaining, The Dilbert Future offers predictions on business, technology, society and government. Nobody is spared this time. Some predictions:

Children: They are our future, so we're pretty much hosed. Tip: Grab what you can while they're still too little to stop us.

Human Potential: We'll finally learn to use the 90 percent of the brain we don't use today, and find out that there wasn't anything in that part.

Longevity: We'll all live to 140. The Olympics will expand to include new events such as Complaining and Slow Driving.

Computers: Technology and homeliness will combine to form a powerful type of birth control.Amazon.com Review
Move over, Faith Popcorn! Cartoonist Scott Adams is back in book form, and this time he gives Dilbert and his cronies a free hand to forecast the trends that just might drive business and society during the next millennium. In typical Adams fashion, The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century serves up a series of laugh-out-loud predictions on technology, marketing, work, jobs, gender relations, and even the future of democracy and capitalism. ... Read more

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Grab Your Shades and Step Into The Future
This is one to keep on your bookshelf.I had to replace the copy I lent to a friend, because the friend wanted to keep it.Scott Adams is his usual, funny self--he seems to have worked where I once did (or maybe he just has spies there?).In any case, most of the book is LOL funny, but I found the last chapter pretty interesting and thought-provoking.It's definitely worth a read even if you don't agree with everything Adams puts forth--and he'll tell you that himself!

Dilbert is funny.Scott Adams, not so.
'Dilbert Future' is a hodgepodge of thoughts by Scott Adams about present day society and the future.Interwoven into the text are Dilbert cartoons which often reflect what the author is trying to express.This book *should be* hilarious.It's not.The author's pontifications on life and the future are dumb, not funny.And towards the end I found them very boring.Thankfully the Dilbert cartoons are humorous.But even those are not "best of breed" Dilbert.I thought this book would lead to hysterical laughter.Not so.Only a wry smile or two.


Bottom line: Scott Adams is a great cartoonist that seems to be unable to write comedic/satiric pieces.Best avoided.

The future
This book is wacky, zany, and humorous. Sometimes impossible, it portrays the picture of the workplace in the future. Workers are non-traditional and sometimes with out-of-this-world attitude. The elderly will have a hard time to accept the would be scenarios. The conversations are not typical of our grandparents' days. A warning to educators and authorities. They have to rethink their policies and programs if they want to avoid a future society like this.

It's ok, but does not hold the audience like the Dilbert series
I'm even being generous by giving this 2 stars.Scott Adams is very talented but he should just stick to Dilbert Comics.

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Scott Adams is a cartoonist. He is not a stand-up comedian nor is he Dave Barry, though this book makes it quite clear that he really wants to be. Still, there is a reason he tells jokes in three-panel comic strips instead of 30-minute monologues. Here he addresses various aspects of life and makes tongue-in-cheek predictions, interspersed with Dilbert cartoons. It was obviously written in sections rather than as a whole, and the entire time all I could think about was how much more fitting these musings would be in somebody's blog than a hardbound tome published by Harper Business, especially since so many of the predictions have gone out of date since its publication (such as his erroneous predictions for the futures of the cable modem and ISDN). There were some vaguely amusing parts but nothing was anywhere near laugh-out-loud funny, and I had to yawn a bit at the tired "women really rule the world" section - that idea was beaten to death decades ago and hasn't gotten any funnier in the meantime. Frankly, the most humorous parts were the cartoons, and if I wanted to read those I could have just picked up a collection.

The final chapter, "A New View of the Future," was inappropriate in this context. For this section Adams "turned the humor mode off" and discussed his personal philosophies. They were interesting but did not fit whatsoever with the rest of the book. His ideas on perception and cause and effect would also have been much more compelling had he bothered to actually research any of the theories and experiments he mentioned. I understand that the goal of this section was nothing more than to make the reader think about the universe a little differently, but it would have been much more effective had he spent an hour at the library finding a couple of references to cite. Saying things like "I'll simplify the explanation, probably getting the details wrong in the process, but you'll get the general idea" does not instill in me a desire to take him very seriously.

Despite the incongruity of the chapter, I still enjoyed it about as much as I did the rest of the book, but for different reasons (the first part was vaguely amusing, the second vaguely intriguing). Ultimately this felt like a Dilbert collection trying to be a Dave Barry book. I think I'll stick with the comic strips from now on. ... Read more

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Chapters: Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be, Once Upon a Star, the Compact Xtc, Sweet Fanny Adams, Wouldn't You Like It?, Rock N'roll Love Letter, Bay City Rollers, the Sweet's Biggest Hits, the Sweet Singles Album. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be was Sweet's first official album, released in 1971 on RCA Records in the UK. The same year it was released (also by RCA) in West Germany under the title Funny Funny, How Sweet Co-Co Can Be with a different album cover and an extra song. This song ("Done Me Wrong All Right") was included as an extra track on the 1991 BMG Music CD reissue. It is also the first bonus track on the 2005 CD reissue. All titles are written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman except where noted. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3691350 ... Read more

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A practical handbook for novice photographers provides step-by-step instruction on the art and technique of photography, explaining how to select the right camera, adjust shutter speed, set up lighting, frame the perfect shot, and more. Original. 25,000 first printing. ... Read more

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Title: Gripping family dramas: "The Constant Gardener" and "Junebug" feature outstanding performances.(MOVIES)(Movie Review)
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