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

Steinberg, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385479700 ISBN 13: 9780385479707

Verlag: Main Street Books, 1995

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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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• Verlag: Main Street Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0385479700
• ISBN 13: 9780385479707
• Einband: Tapa blanda