Anecdotes


I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
Assholes Finish First (Tucker Max, #2)
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Sh*t My Dad Says
Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
Twitter Wit: Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less – The Authorized Collection of Clever Celebrity Comedy
Friends Like These
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (Tucker Max, #1)
Chicken Soup for the Soul
The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes by Clifton FadimanPresidential Anecdotes by Paul F. Boller Jr.Hollywood Anecdotes by Paul F. Boller Jr.Thesaurus Of Anecdotes by Edmund FullerThe New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by John Gross
ANECDOTES
98 books — 1 voter
Curious Matrix by Domagoj PernarA Blessed Olive Tree by Zain HashmiWithout Opposite by Marcel EschauzierOneless Oneness by Marcel EschauzierAwakening the Other Way by Marcel Eschauzier
Entertaining and Enlightening
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Enfermera Saturada
Alguna vez me he preguntado por qué esta gran profesión, desde siempre, ha sido llevada y desempeñada por mujeres. Y creo que tengo la respuesta: porque hace falta ser muy fuerte y muy generoso. Fuerte para soportar la carga de trabajo, pero sobre todo para convivir año tras año con la muerte, con el drama, con la cara menos amable de la vida y no derrumbarse. Y generoso para ser capaz de dejar de lado a tu propia familia para ir a cuidar de gente que no conoces de nada, pero que sabes que neces ...more
Enfermera Saturada, El silencio de los goteros

G. Stanley Hall, a creature of his times, believed strongly that adolescence was determined – a fixed feature of human development that could be explained and accounted for in scientific fashion. To make his case, he relied on Haeckel's faulty recapitulation idea, Lombroso's faulty phrenology-inspired theories of crime, a plethora of anecdotes and one-sided interpretations of data. Given the issues, theories, standards and data-handling methods of his day, he did a superb job. But when you take ...more
Robert Epstein, Teen 2.0: Saving Our Children and Families from the Torment of Adolescence

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