Author: Joe Kilgore
Publisher: Bridgeway Books
Keywords: blunder
Number of Pages: 223
Published: 2008-06
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1934454230
ISBN-13: 9781934454237

After a long and successful career, Brice Lanning sees himself as the consummate advertising man. When an insensitive boss, years his junior, tactlessly reassigns his major account, Lanning takes it as a personal insult. Retreating to his favorite watering hole, he embarks on a monumental bender and a particularly ill-conceived revenge. It’s a snafu that triggers an inexorable chain of life-changing events. The Blunder is a modern cautionary tale that makes each of us question whether we are captives or architects of that elusive thing called fate.

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Keywords: rogues, blunder
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1999-03-26
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0395910072
ISBN-13: 9780395910078

With his trademark wit and wry sense of humor, Tim Egan spins a tale of a life of crime. The Rogues, a shamefully poor bowling team, distraught at their inability to do anything well, are seduced into a life of crime. At last they believe they have stumbled upon something they might just be good at. Lured further into the seedy underworld by Vincent the Goat and the Sheep Lady, they are persuaded to attempt a bank heist. But this goes awry and the four friends wind up in the slammer with seven years’ hard labor, and plenty of time to think about the error of their ways. In his most hilar

Author: M. H. Goldberg
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: gigantic, book, blunder
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 1988-02-25
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 0688077579
ISBN-13: 9780688077570

The Blunder Book: Colossal Errors, Minor Mistakes, and Surprising Slipups that have changed the course of history. The pantheon of error making is large and always growing. History is replete with notables who have made serious mistakes, who have every right to hide their red faces from the limelight: people like Columbus, Gutenburg, Washington, Einstein. All of them -- and many others -- have had to overcome the errors of their ways to make their marks in the world.This book presents the many ways in which error has become ingrained in our government, science, medicine, and the arts, how erro

Author: Brent Kelley
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: blunder, biggest, baseball
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1996-12-30
List price: $52.80
ISBN-10: 0810830493
ISBN-13: 9780810830493

The "bonus rule" of 1953-1957 required players who signed a baseball contract for more than $4,000 to remain on the major league roster for two full seasons. These were the bonus babies--young men of about 18 or 19 years old, so full of promise and talent that they overshadowed their high school or collegiate teammates and had professional teams scrambling to sign them. This system produced three members of the Baseball Hall of Fame (Al Kaline, Harmon Killebrew, and Sandy Koufax) and several other long-time performers, but the "bonus rule" was also responsible for the destruction of many poten

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Publisher: S. French
Keywords: ages, fourteen, play, birdie, bluebell, baby, blunder
Number of Pages: 52
Published: 1981
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0573650012
ISBN-13: 9780573650017

Author: Dean Baker
Publisher: Polipoint Press
Keywords: economy, bubble, rise, blunder, plunder
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0981576990
ISBN-13: 9780981576992

For the second time this decade, the US economy is sinking into a recession due to the collapse of a financial bubble. The most recent calamity is likely to produce a downturn deeper and longer than the stock market crash of 2001. Dean Baker argues not only that competent economists should have recognized the developing housing bubble, but also that policy makers and the media cheerfully neglected those economists who did predict danger. Baker doesnt engage in 20-20 hindsight, but documents the fundamental policy changes since 1980 that destabilized the economy and eroded the broad prosperity

Author: Paul Kupperberg
Publisher: Stone Arch Books
Keywords: heroes, batman, super, blunder, mite, bat
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2010-01-15
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 1434222551
ISBN-13: 9781434222558