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books about: haphazard

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Out of Order: A Haphazard Journey Through One Women's Year
Jane Lapotaire

Kyle Cathie, 2001

Actress Jane Lapotaire is a single parent, cat lover, feminist, and lapsed Methodist with an interest in Buddhism. This opinionated memoir covers topics from collapse from overwork to anxiety about the back garden, and London traffic to the theater's attitude to "women of a certain age."

Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind

66 reviews
Gary Marcus

Houghton Mifflin Co, 2008

The Clusterf*$#@* Mind
The term Kluge, pronounced similarly to "huge", was first popularized in early 1962, in an article written by Jackson Granholm, a computer pioneer. Mr. Granholm defined the word as "an ill-assorted collection of poorly matching parts, forming a distressing whole." Mr. Marcus asserts that Evolution yields suboptimal, patchwork designs, in particular the human mind. While it is widely accepted ...

Three Moons in Vietnam: A Haphazard Journey by Boat and Bicycle

2 reviews
Maria Coffey

Abacus (UK), 1997

Three moons in VietNam, not just a tourist guide.
Hello, my name is LinhVu. I am deeply touched by The Three Moons in Vietnam. For me, it's not just a guide book for tourists, but a very profound story about my country which I left in 1980 and never return back. Throughout the book, I can revisit my beautiful country, its culture in its very essence and see how my people survive after so many terrible years in the last half of the century. I ...

Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind. Gary Marcus
Gary F. Marcus

Faber & Faber, 2008

The haphazard gourmet,: Being a carelessly compiled, aimless, alternately infuriating and ingratiating ...

1 review
Richard Gehman

Scribner, 1966

More than a cookbook
I have been reading and re-reading this book since I stumbled across it 40 years ago. The humorous style is reminiscent of Robert Benchley or Mary Laswell, with the added benefit of some truly outstanding recipes. I have attempted, with mixed results, the author's Bean Soup and his hangover remedies, but my lifelong ambition is to make and serve his recipe for Thompson's Turkey. Merely reading ...

Haphazard Personalities: Chiefly Of Noted Americans
Charles Lanman

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

"Something haphazard and botched": Flannery O'Connor's critique of the visual in "Parker's Back".: An article ...
Thomas F. Haddox

Mississippi State University, 2004

This digital document is an article from The Mississippi Quarterly, published by Mississippi State University on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 6644 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: "Something haphazard and ...