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books on: Jackass  - 1198 results

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The Great Jackass Fallacy
Book by Harry Levinson; Harvard University, 1973
Subjects: Employee Motivation, Organizational Change, Personnel Management
...thinks "carrotand-stick" is a jackass, obviously the unconscious assumption...model is that one is dealing with jackasses, that people are jackasses to be...controller, and the subordinate is the jackass. The characteristics of a jackass...
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Sons of the Wild Jackass
Book by Ray Tucker, Frederick R. Barkley, R. G. List, Robert S. Maxwell; University of Washington Press, 1970
Subjects: Statesmen--United States, United States--Congress--Senate--Biography
...inception of the book SONS OF THE WILD JACKASS and the reasons which caused it to have...Senators in Washington as "Sons of the Wild Jackass." This term, an excellent example of...and the next day "Sons of the Wild Jackass" was given a front page spread by many...
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Readings in American Educational History
Book by Edgar W. Knight, Clifton L. Hall; Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951
Subjects: Education--United States--History
...illustration. Here is a man to-day who owns a jackass, and the jackass is worth sixty dollars. Today the man is a voter, and he goes up to the polls with his jackass and deposits his vote. To-morrow the jackass dies...
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The Bird Who Cleans the World: And Other Mayan Fables
Book by Victor Montejo, Wallace Kaufman; Curbstone Press, 1991
Subjects: Animals--Folklore, Jacalteca Indians--Folklore
Advice From A Jackass A peasant from the warm lands was ploughing...want to finish the work. Passing near a jackass who was quietly grazing, the ox stopped...feet with unusual stubbornness. The jackass took advantage of the moment to tell...
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Naming-Day in Eden: The Creation and Recreation of Language
Book by Noah Jonathan Jacobs; Macmillan, 1958
Subjects: Language And Languages--Anecdotes, Facetiae, Satire, Etc, Names--Anecdotes, Facetiae, Satire, Etc
...namely, Did Adam put the hyphen in jackass? If the traducer is referring to the...bird, the jack-salmon fish and the jackass-rabbit, so-called because of its...esthetic reasons; the nonce words to jackass , jackassery and jackassification are...
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journal articles on: Jackass  - 99 results

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"This Performance Art Is for the Birds:" Jackass, 'extreme' Sports, and the De(Con)struction of Gender
Journal article by Robert W. Sweeny; Studies in Art Education, Vol. 49, 2008
Subjects: Litigation, Skateboarding, Stereotypes, Television production industry, Television programs, Theater
...This Performance Art Is for the Birds:" Jackass, extreme Sports, and the De(Con...Brian Webster (2005) With the release of Jackass Number Two in 2006 (Tremaine, 2005...1 It is this infectious potential of Jackass, the television show and its filmic offshoots...
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Authority in the Valley: TVA in Wild River and the Popular Media, 1930-1940
Journal article by Brian Black; Journal of American Culture, Vol. 18, 1995
Subjects: Culture, Government agencies, History, Media, Motion pictures, TVA, Tennessee Valley Authority
...interest that was generated over the infamous "jackass" episode. In March 1938, Senators McKellar of...rage, decided to tell the Senate a story about a jackass -- not just any jackass, but the "perfect jackass." He made the claim...
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Czech Settlements in 19th Century Cleveland, Ohio
Journal article by Michael A. Kukral; East European Quarterly, Vol. 38, 2004
Subjects: Cleveland, Ohio--Emigration and immigration, Emigration and immigration--History, Immigrants--Analysis
...Street. East Side Settlements Croton, Jackass Hill, Broadway and E. 55th, Quincy...vrsku" (On the Hill) or later as "Jackass Hill," became the Czech center of Cleveland...1867 until the mid 1880s. The moniker "Jackass Hill" takes it origin from the mules...
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A Political History and Analysis of Disenfranchisement and Restoration of the Black Vote in Lousisiana
Journal article by Iii William Arp, Berlisha Morton; The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 29, 2005
Subjects: Suffrage--Case studies, United States. Department of Justice, Voting rights--Case studies, Voting--Case studies
...pamphlet Common Sense, "Here is a man who today owns a jackass, and the jackass is worth $60. Today the man is a voter and goes to the polls and deposits his vote. Tomorrow the jackass dies. The next day the man comes to vote without...
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Male Trouble: Are Men Victims of Sexism?
Journal article by Tom Digby; Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 29, 2003
Subjects: Sex discrimination against men--Social aspects, Sexism--Analysis
...with gleeful awe as Steve-O (star of Jackass, MTVs highest rated show) emasculates...among the fans of the previously mentioned Jackass show on MTV, which features a group of...injury in their attempts to replicate Jackass stunts, but the show is meant to be funny...
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magazine articles on: Jackass  - 142 results

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Canada-israel Committee Calls Bush "idiot," Baker "pompous Jackass"
Magazine article by John Dirlik; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. X, January 31, 1992
Subjects: Baker, James, Bush, George, Canada, Conferences, Federal government, Government, Interest groups, International relations, Israel, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Madrid, Spain, Peace, Politics, United States
...Calls Bush "idiot," Baker "pompous Jackass" by John Dirlik Canada-Israel Committee Calls Bush "Idiot," Baker "Pompous Jackass" Disregarding the most elementary of...Secretary of State James Baker a "pompous jackass" for their roles in pressuring Israel...
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Jackass TV
Magazine article by Tim Graham; Human Events, Vol. 67, July 4, 2011
Subjects: Political advertising
Jackass TV by Tim Graham MSNBC began simply as a bland, Internet-gimmicky version of NBC News on cable TV but in the last decade it...
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Thinking of Jackasses: The Grand Delusions of the Democratic Party
Magazine article by Mark Cooper; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 295, April 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Don't Think Of An Elephant (Book)--Book reviews, Nation Of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture (Book)--Book reviews, What's The Matter With Kansas ?: How Conservatives Won The Heart Of America (Book)--Book reviews
Thinking of Jackasses: The Grand Delusions of the Democratic Party. by Mark Cooper DONT THINK OF AN ELEPHANT!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate...
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Penguins under the Sun
Magazine article by Yolanda Van Heezik, Philip Seddon; Natural History, Vol. 106, November 1997
Subjects: Birds, Dassen Island
...bill. Such was our introduction to the jackass penguin. Named for its donkeylike bray, the jackass penguin lives far from the icy regions favored...jackals, leopards, and other predators, jackass penguins have long sought the safety of...
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The World's Growing Inventory of Civil Spent Fuel
Magazine article by Luther J. Carter, Thomas H. Pigford; Arms Control Today, Vol. 29, January 1999
Subjects: Fuels, Nuclear reactors
...is here, and just to the east of it is Jackass Flats, a site with excellent potential...of spent fuel and high-level waste at Jackass Flats, with these materials to be gradually...level waste would eventually be moved from Jackass Flats into the Yucca Mountain repository...
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newspaper articles on: Jackass  - 610 results

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Jackass Film Plain Stupid on Big Scale
Newspaper article; The Observer (Gladstone, Australia), November 12, 2010
Subjects: Cable television broadcasting industry, Jackass 3D (Motion picture), MTV Networks Inc.
Jackass Film Plain Stupid on Big Scale. Byline...amusing than its 2D incarnations, and Jackass 3D has little else to fall back on. While...endure at this school of hard Knoxville. Jackass 3D provides the standard smorgasbord of...
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LOONY TOONS; Jackass Movie Madmen Copied Crazy Road Runner Stunts for New Blockbuster
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), November 22, 2006
LOONY TOONS; Jackass Movie Madmen Copied Crazy Road Runner...laughs. But Johnny Knoxville and his Jackass Number Two co-stars took out insurance...coloured plastic balls. But because this is Jackass, theres also a couple of large anacondas...
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Ten Years Won't Tame a Jackass; as Controversial as They Are Fearless, the Cast of MTV Series Jackass Are Back with Their Third Movie -- Which Marks the 10th Anniversary of the Crude Franchise. They May Be Older but They're Not Wiser, as LOUISE BOYLE Learns When They Talk about Their Latest Stunts ..
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 5, 2010
Subjects: Cable television broadcasting industry, MTV Networks Inc., Petroleum industry, Television programs
Ten Years Wont Tame a Jackass; as Controversial as They Are Fearless, the Cast of MTV Series Jackass Are Back with Their Third Movie -- Which...Knoxville, arch prankster of stunt show Jackass, is having a whale of a time. He is contentedly...
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School of Hard Knox; BATTERED JACKASS JOK KER HAS NO PLANS TO JACK IT IN AT 40
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), November 9, 2010
Subjects: Cash, Johnny
School of Hard Knox; BATTERED JACKASS JOK KER HAS NO PLANS TO JACK IT IN AT...love upsetting people." The TV series Jackass ended nine years ago. But fans keep demanding...and his gang of reckless daredevils. In Jackass 3D, which opens this week, Johnny makes...
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Coventry Made Me Such a JACKASS! STAR THANKS CITY FOR BOWLING GREEN STREAK STUNT AHEAD OF COMEDY GIG
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), October 24, 2011
Coventry Made Me Such a JACKASS! STAR THANKS CITY FOR BOWLING GREEN...known as crazy stunt man Steve-O from Jackass but he has a disastrous visit to Coventry...and was snapped by producers of MTVs Jackass. He added: "After the tour was over...
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encyclopedia articles on: Jackass  - 5 results

 
 
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Jackass
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JACKASS see ass . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Laughing Jackass
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LAUGHING JACKASS see kookaburra . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Kookaburra
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Alcedinidae ( kingfisher family). Because of its loud, maniacal-sounding call, it is also known as the laughing jackass, or jackass kingfisher. The kookaburra has dull plumage and is about the size of a raven. Like many forest kingfishers...
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Ass
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...latter species includes the domesticated variety, E. asinus asinus, commonly known as the donkey. A male ass is called a jackass and a female, a jenny. Wild asses are swift desert animals that may attain speeds of up to 40 mi (60 km) per hr. They...
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Penguin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and the king (3 4 ft/91.5 122 cm in height), incubate their eggs between their feet in a fold of skin. The smaller jackass penguins, Spheniscus demersus, are named for their braying cry, and crested penguins (genus Eudyptes ) are distinguished...


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