Complete & Utter Failure: A Celebration of Also-Rans, Runners-Up, Never-Weres and Total Flops - Tapa blanda

Steinberg, Neil

 
9780385479707: Complete & Utter Failure: A Celebration of Also-Rans, Runners-Up, Never-Weres and Total Flops

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Discusses the nature of failure and looks at mountain climbing, the national spelling bee, utopias, perpetual motion machines, and immortality

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t these fond hopes for blissful love, professional glory, fame, and fortune. But in the back of your mind there's that nagging fear. The man of your dreams will laugh in your face. Your hated office rival will come up with some whizbang marketing idea and get promoted, while you'll be asked to "help out with the phones." Steven Spielberg will buy the rights to your screenplay, spend $40 million producing it, and the critics will savage the film, mercilessly singling out your work for especially contemptuous, poisonous derision. But hey, everybody fails sometime. It's inevitable. So don't fear failure. Embrace it. In Complete And Utter Failure, Neil Steinberg joyfully explores the many fascinating facets of failure, from pointless failure (a brief history of several very dumb attempt

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9781857936964: COMPLETE & UTTER FAILURE 1995

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ISBN 10:  1857936965 ISBN 13:  9781857936964
Editorial: Pavilion, 1995
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