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Just a brief description of what you're going to find in Bar Protocol. The information in this handbook is for those who may manage, work, or patron any bar or restaurant. This is not some miracle solution to making a bar or restaurant successful, but it may help in giving some informed ideas to the problems that may occur in the food and beverage industries.
Bar Protocol will have some unique information and helpful hints that may help many individuals...
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Three, two, one…go! Join papa bear and li'l monkey as they embark on their maiden adventure. Where will they go first? Their imagination is the key to their adventures. Read along with your "li'l monkey" as they fly in their "covered wagon" to far-off places and see where they take you. You never know where your next adventure will lead.
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Luke's New Glasses is another delightful story in the life of Mrs. Miller, a kindergarten teacher. Luke is just starting school and has gotten his new glasses, but they never seem to stay on his face. See if you can help Luke find his glasses in each of the pictures. Will Mrs. Miller be able to find his glasses? Will Luke's mom find a way to keep Luke's glasses, where they belong?
If you enjoyed Virginia Mohler's other books, Mrs. Miller's Magic...
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It's a ritual as time-honored among teenagers as prom or pretending to be sick to get out of changing for PE-glossy catalogs from colleges arriving by the dozen each spring. Aside from the faint odor of kiwi bubblegum vape smoke, Woodmont College's catalog, Welcome to Woodmont, is superficially not unlike the others. But there's no school quite like Woodmont College (no longer "university" due to a court order). And every page of this catalog is proof...
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In the extraordinary life of Mark Simmons, a tall 6'6" force of humor and compassion, an epic tale of laughter, inspiration and transformation unfolds. Hailing from Cherokee, Iowa, Mark's journey traverses the realms of education, comedy and a touch of entrepreneurial genius.
As the son of a small-town grocery store owner, Mark's father foresaw the future of convenience with a delivery service that Jeffrey Bozos of Amazon shamelessly borrowed decades...
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Repeatedly jamming his fork of curiosity into the live toaster of opportunity, comedian Richard O. Smith captures the experience of living in Oxford in probably the funniest book written about the Dreaming Spires. Collected here are 70 of his best Oxford Examined columns from the award-winning Oxford Times magazine Oxfordshire Limited Edition including several previously unpublished stories. In these unflinchingly truthful columns he meets celebrities...
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An Animal Life is a series of illustrated comic poems that explore the joys and sorrows that afflict all of us creatures: in one way or another. Limpets get lonely, ants need psychiatric counselling, frogs philosophise, spiders get existential nausea and pelicans lead the high life Hugh has been writing about life for a while now. No, not since birth, but he was thinking about it. He accepts that life is mostly strife, interrupted by periods of inappropriate...
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***"***Do you remember the time Lorna tried to make ground beef with her car?******"
For almost forty years, Lorna Stuber's high school classmates have teased her mercilessly about the time she crashed her car into a steer, leaving the car with tufts of bovine hair stuck in cracks in the hood. The car has since been known as "Lorna's Cowfur Mobile".
Filled with relatable yet unique stories of sibling rivalry, community, and coming-of-age lessons,...
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Explore the ups and downs of a year in the life of the senior class cats at Paw Paw High School in this hilarious parody yearbook.
This active senior class did a lot in their last year of high school. The Glee Club Meowlers recorded their first album, Songs to Lick Fur To. The drama club performed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The Ratters football coach, Fred Ball Whiskers, retired. And, of course, Sophie McMeow was voted "Most Chased." Filled with cat...
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From the very first week of Tim Clancy's 25-year career as a high school English teacher, he began to notice and collect funny and strange moments he discovered in his students' writing, such as: "The word 'witch' has become a household word, like 'spatula,'" and "Wherever excitement is, there will always be romance. Trust me." He would occasionally share them with his classes, who enjoyed them as much as he did, and so this book was born. Best in...
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Teaching during the Jurassic: Wit and Wisdom from an Old Hippie Teacher is a memoir in the vein of Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. Instead of the Appalachian Trail, we follow all the twists and turns of Martin Settle's teaching career from his first approach to teaching as a hippie subversive to his eventual triumph as a self-actualized person.
Part memoir, part teaching guide, this book charts the "Jurassic" period of teaching, no personal computers,...
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"If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now is an insider's collection of funny and warmhearted stories about coming of age in the Los Angeles suburb famed for birthing the Kardashian-Jenners and the Bling Ring. For Via Bleidner, transferring to Calabasas High from the private Catholic school she's attended since second grade is a culture shock, not to mention absolutely lonely. Suddenly thrust into an unfamiliar world of celebrities, affluenza, and...
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From Cabbage to Cauliflower offers a testament to the power and capacity of education to open the doors of opportunity and accomplishment to even the poorest and least likely of the nation's citizens. Born to a working-class Irish American family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1927, William G. Monahan was surrounded by love, but not expected to amount to much. But, he got lucky. He married a woman, who saw more in him than he saw in himself, and they...
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Quotes from teachers that stayed with their students-from the life-changing to the head-scratching.
My high school chemistry teacher used to tell us, "Carol never wore her safety goggles. Now, she doesn't need them." It was a joke. I think. But it sure got the point across. -Alicia on Mr. P.
The author of Like My Mother Always Said and Like My Father Always Said returns with a new crowdsourced collection of quips, quotes, and stories from people...
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Is There a Pigeon in the Room? is a deeply personal book about Cameron Wyllie's remarkable four-decade career in teaching. It's a tapestry of anecdotes and reflections on topics like drugs, parenting and sex education, laced with stories about memorable individuals. What did he say to the Third Year after drinking too much gin with the Head? Who was Adolf? What happened to the horrible bus driver? While the intention is to make the reader laugh plenty,...
16) Practically Perfect: 2020's hilarious look at the best-loved film, from Julie Andrews to Emily Blunt
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Mary Poppins is a story of taking practical steps towards happiness. It's looking at the bright side of life. It's setting boundaries, deciding what you want and making it happen. That's the path to being Practically Perfect For comedian Katy Brand, part of the joy of watching Mary Poppins as a child was the thrill of the film's iconic, no-nonsense heroine. Her unshakeable confidence, her staunch independence, and that touch of magic. Now she's all...
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A profound expansion of David McCullough, Jr.'s popular commencement speech-a call to arms against a prevailing, narrow, conception of success viewed by millions on YouTube-You Are (Not) Special is a love letter to students and parents as well as a guide to a truly fulfilling, happy life.
Children today, says David McCullough-high school English teacher, father of four, and son and namesake of the famous historian-are being encouraged to sacrifice...
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Math is universal, but it's also the least understood and most undervalued subject taught in school. Two Trains Leave Paris: Number Problems for Word People seeks to offer readers an opportunity to experience math like never before. You must use the Pythagorean Theorem to figure out how far apart two ex-lovers are when they simultaneously realize that they cannot live without each other. You must use addition (and logic) to explore the ridiculous...
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Dude, Bro: How to College is a humorous guide to surviving college written by comedian Bread Foster. Dude, Bro will provide articles, episodes, and truth (under the guise of guidance) about college life, mixed with honest stories from a mildly psychotic student. After extensive discussions with fellow college students who were part of his college experience, the most frequently uttered phrase is "how did we survive that?" and Bread wants to teach...
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Blyth in the 1960s - a north-east town vibrant and bustling with life. With its crowded shops and a marketplace fed by the wage-packets of workers from the local mines and factories, the shipyard and busy docks - it's a perfect place to grow up in, and a great time to be a youngster...but not so easy for some.
Sidney (Hawky) Brown is a ten-year-old Scottish lad suddenly uprooted from his home in Kirkcaldy, Fife, and relocated to Cowpen...a new...
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