The Darwin Awards

2004

With over 100 brand-new awards winners, this collection of magnificent misadventures and macabre mishaps is the must-have humour title for the holiday season and beyond.

Author: Wendy Northcutt

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ISBN: 0752859277

Category: Accident victims

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Just when you thought it was safe to leave the house...brand new DARWIN AWARDS, the bestselling humour series that honours those people who improve the human gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves from it in sublimely idiotic ways. The sheriff who inadvertently shot himself TWICE... the artist who strung a "shell" necklace of live ammunition... the parachute instructor who forgot his own parachute when he jumped out of the plane... the man who put his ear against the rail tracks to listen for the arrival of a train and was killed by an incoming express. With over 100 brand-new awards winners, this collection of magnificent misadventures and macabre mishaps is the must-have humour title for the holiday season and beyond.
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The Darwin Awards III

2004-09-28

Particularly ironic flames come from readers who have previously enjoyed the
Darwin Awards but turn against them when a friend or family member becomes
eligible. One woman said she was reading the Darwin Awards on an airplane
and ...

Author: Wendy Northcutt

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 9781101219430

Category: Humor

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The hilarious New York Times bestselling phenomenon and the perfect funny gift! Honoring those who improve our gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves fromit, The Darwin Awards III includes more than one hundred brand new, hilariously macabre mishaps and misadventures. From a sheriff who inadvertently shot himself twice, to the insurance defrauder who amputated his leg with a chainsaw; from a farmer who avoided bee stings by sealing his head in a plastic bag to the man crushed by the branch he just trimmed, The Darwin Awards III proves again that when it comes to stupidity, no species does it like we do. Featuring scientific and safety discussions and filled with illustrations depicting inspiring examples of evolution in action, The Darwin Awards III shows once more how uncommon common sense still is.
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The Darwin Awards 3

2003

Evolution takes another giant step forward with the third edition of the "New York Times" bestselling phenomenon.

Author: Wendy Northcutt

Publisher: E P Dutton

ISBN: PSU:000067599967

Category: Humor

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A third collection of misadventures of people who have lost their lives by engaging in questionable activities includes the stories of a sheriff who shot himself twice and an artist who made a necklace using live ammunition.
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The Darwin Awards 4

2006-10-24

The Darwin awards 4: intelligent design/Wendy Northcutt with Christopher M.
Kelly. p. cm. ISBN: 978-1-101-21892-1 1. Stupidity—Anecdotes. 2. Stupidity—
Humor. I. Kelly, Christopher M. II. Title. III. Title: Darwin awards four. IV. Title:
Intelligent ...

Author: Wendy Northcutt

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 9781101218921

Category: Humor

Page: 336

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The hilarious New York Times bestselling phenomenon and the perfect funny gift! The Darwin Awards series is the alpha chimp of humorous human mishaps. Despite being an international bestseller and inspiring the movie The Darwin Awards, these hilarious, cautionary chronicles have failed to stop another generation of Darwin Award winners from steering motorcycles with their feet, heating lava lamps on stoves, using liquid soap as brake fluid, and drowning themselves in the kitchen sink. Filled with more than 100 new tales of evolution in action, plus science essays and a parody research paper supporting Intelligent Design, The Darwin Awards 4 shows that when it comes to common sense, natural selection still has a long, long way to go.
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Encyclopedia of Evolution

2009-01-01

Darwin Awards “The Darwin Awards” is a Web site and series of books started in
1993 by Wendy Northcutt, a molecular biology graduate ... This is the
fundamental premise of the Darwin Awards. ... The Darwin Awards III: Survival of
the Fittest.

Author: Stanley A. Rice

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

ISBN: 9781438110059

Category: Science

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Evolutionary science is not only one of the greatest breakthroughs of modern science, but also one of the most controversial. Perhaps more than any other scientific area, evolutionary science has caused us all to question what we are, where we came from, and how we relate to the rest of the universe. Encyclopedia of Evolution contains more than 200 entries that span modern evolutionary science and the history of its development. This comprehensive volume clarifies many common misconceptions about evolution. For example, many people have grown up being told that the fossil record does not demonstrate an evolutionary pattern, and that there are many missing links. In fact, most of these missing links have been found, and their modern representatives are often still alive today. The biographical entries represent evolutionary scientists within the United States who have had and continue to have a major impact on the broad outline of evolutionary science. The biographies chosen reflect the viewpoints of scientists working within the United States. Five essays that explore interesting questions resulting from studies in evolutionary science are included as well. The appendix consists of a summary of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, which is widely considered to be the foundational work of evolutionary science and one of the most important books in human history. The five essays include: How much do genes control human behavior?What are the ghosts of evolution?Can an evolutionary scientist be religious?Why do humans die?Are humans alone in the universe
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The Bowker Annual

2005-06

Tracy Chevalier . Rep . Plume ( 106 , 498 ) Chicken Soup to Inspire a Woman ' s
Soul . Canfield , Hansen . Orig . HCI ( 106 , 102 ) The Darwin Awards III . Wendy
Northcutt . Rep . ( 104 , 041 ) Haley ' s Cleaning Hints . Rosemary Haley . Rep .

Author: Information Today, Incorporated

Publisher: Information Today Incorporated

ISBN: 1573872164

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 387

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The Publishers Weekly

2005

James The Darwin Awards III . Patterson . Rep . Warner Wendy Northcutt . Rep . (
1,682,504 ) ( 104,041 ) Chesapeake Blue . Nora Haley's Cleaning Hints .
RoseRoberts . Rep . Jove mary Haley . Rep . NAL ( 1,600,294 ) ( 104,010 ) The
Teeth ...

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ISBN: UCSD:31822034958801

Category: American literature

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Worlds Apart

2008-04

Then there's the one from The Annals of Improbable Research—issuer of the
Darwin Awards and the Ig-Nobel Prizes. Seeing that reminds him of the awards
ceremony last October, in Harvard's surprisingly vertical Sanders Theatre where
he was part of the almost ... M. Even the mere taste of coffee starts to dispel the III.

Author: Max Salt

Publisher: Zelkova Press

ISBN: 9780615207605

Category: Fiction

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Survivor of a brutal stabbing and sexual assault, Shailene Campbell has the ability to see homicidal sociopaths for what they are. This uniquely qualifies her to find and stop them, but shouldering this responsibility means breaking the promise to herself to stay safe. Now, just out of the Army, Shailene is trying to rebuild her life. She has a job as a computer geek, a small and secure apartment in a quiet neighborhood, and even a new friendship-possibly more-with a gentle architect named Mike. Things are going well, until the bodies of four young boys are discovered in New Jersey's Pine Barrens. Keeping her boss and Mike in the dark, Shailene takes emergency vacation and goes to Trenton, hoping she can find the killer before another boy ends up in a shallow grave. There is always risk when she goes out on a mission, but she cannot anticipate the personal toll this one will exact.
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The Moral Arc

2015-01-20

Sacred and Secular. New York: Cambridge University Press. Northcutt, Wendy.
2010. The Darwin Awards: Countdown to Extinction. ... University Press. Parker,
Theodore. 1852/2005. Ten Sermons of Religion. Sermon III: Of BIBLIOGRAPHY
517.

Author: Michael Shermer

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

ISBN: 9780805096934

Category: Science

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Bestselling author Michael Shermer's exploration of science and morality that demonstrates how the scientific way of thinking has made people, and society as a whole, more moral From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously employed scientific techniques to better understand the non-physical world. The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment led theorists to apply scientific reasoning to the non-scientific disciplines of politics, economics, and moral philosophy. Instead of relying on the woodcuts of dissected bodies in old medical texts, physicians opened bodies themselves to see what was there; instead of divining truth through the authority of an ancient holy book or philosophical treatise, people began to explore the book of nature for themselves through travel and exploration; instead of the supernatural belief in the divine right of kings, people employed a natural belief in the right of democracy. In The Moral Arc, Shermer will explain how abstract reasoning, rationality, empiricism, skepticism--scientific ways of thinking--have profoundly changed the way we perceive morality and, indeed, move us ever closer to a more just world.
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The Guy friendly YA Library

2007

Littlejohn, Carol and Cathlyn Thomas. Keep Talking That Book: Booktalks to
Promote Reading, Grades 2-12, vol. III. Worthington, OH: Linworth ... The Darwin
Awards. http://www.nancykeane.com/booktalks. Booktalks — Quick and Simple.

Author: Rollie James Welch

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited

ISBN: 1591582709

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 196

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Looks at the reading habits of teenage boys and describes ways to improve library services for them.
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Shropshire County Records Commissioners awards for inclosing lands 1773 1891 Plans and documents relating to roads bridges railways canals water gas c c deposited with the clerk of the peace for the county of Salop Orders of the Shropshire quarter sessions v 1 2 1638 1782 ed by R Lloyd Kenyon

1902

252 , 259 , 263 , 267 , 270 , 277 , 278 , 279 , 280 , 284 , 287 ; A. H. , IV . 244 ;
G. W. W. , IV . 239 ; Jos . , II . 133 ; Josh . , III . 112 . Darley , Wm . , III . 46 .
Darlington , Earl of , III . 178 , 257 . Dartmouth , Earl of , IV . 101 , 129 , 242 .
Darwin , Dr. , III .

Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Shropshire Co.)

Publisher:

ISBN: MSU:31293027346653

Category: Shropshire (England)

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Forthcoming Books

2003

Author: Rose Arny

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015054037059

Category: American literature

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Commonwealth Arbitration Reports

1974

A Report of Cases Decided and Awards Made in the Commonwealth Court of
Conciliation and Arbitration Australia. ... ( iii ) Subject to sub - clauses ( i ) and ( ii )
above , the employer shall fix regular starting and finishing times for each day on
which the employee is ... 4 5 SCHEDULE Ah Toy , J. & Co. , Knuckey Street ,
Darwin R. S. Barden , Chemist , Box 416 , Darwin Sun Cheong Loong & Co. ,
Knuckey ...

Author: Australia. Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration

Publisher:

ISBN: SRLF:AA0000993147

Category: Arbitration, Industrial

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Darwin and His Children

2013-07-18

... 81, 105 Darwin, Erasmus I, 3, 74, 167 Darwin, Erasmus III, 165 Darwin,
Frances, 124, 165 Darwin, Francis (“Frank”), ... 112 on plant growth, 122, 125,
189 teaching by, 124 Darwin, George Howard, 81–106 attacks on, 91 awards to,
2, 100, ...

Author: Tim M. Berra

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780199309467

Category: Science

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While much has been written about the life and works of Charles Darwin, the lives of his ten children remain largely unexamined. Most "Darwin books" consider his children as footnotes to the life of their famous father and close with the death of Charles Darwin. This is the only book that deals substantially with the lives of his children from their birth to their death, each in his or her own chapter. Tim Berra's Darwin and His Children: His Other Legacy explores Darwin's marriage to his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood, a devout Unitarian, who worried that her husband's lack of faith would keep them apart in eternity, and describes the early death of three children of this consanguineous marriage. Many of the other children rose to prominence in their own fields. William Darwin became a banker and tended the Darwin family's substantial wealth. Henrietta Darwin edited Charles' books and wrote a biography of her mother. Three of Darwin's sons were knighted and elected Fellows of the Royal Society: Sir George Darwin was the world's expert on tides, Sir Francis Darwin developed the new field of plant physiology, and Sir Horace Darwin founded the world-class Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company. Major Leonard Darwin was a military man, Member of Parliament, and patron of early genetic research. This book, richly illustrated with photographs of the Darwin family, demonstrates the intellectual atmosphere whirling about the Darwin household, portrays loving family relationships, and explores entertaining vignettes from their lives.
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Commonwealth arbitration reports

1973

... CLERICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ( CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF
DARWIN ) AWARDS ( Commr Wilson From 19 ... ( iii ) Junior Females A junior
female officer shall be paid the appropriate following percentage of the salary
prescribed ...

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ISBN: UCAL:B5000426

Category:

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Words on Cassette 2002

2002

III . Incl . Ficelle ; Peur ; Spoken Arts . ( Pg . 465 ) - Fables de la Fontaine , Vol . I .
Incl . Cigale et la Fourmi ; Coq et le Renard ; Loup et la Chien ; Spoken Arts . ( Pg
. 731 ) - - Lettres de Mon Moulin ... The Darwin Awards : Evolution in Action .

Author: R R Bowker Publishing

Publisher: R. R. Bowker

ISBN: 0835245160

Category: Reference

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The Atlantic Monthly

2003

One of the most haunting repositories of truly bad ideas is the well - trafficked
Web site of the Darwin Awards , devoted to those who “ protect our ... Phase III
brings the moment when the company arranges for a serendipitous first
encounter .

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Publisher:

ISBN: STANFORD:36105112932947

Category: Arts

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