Tough Boris

  tough boris: Tough Boris Mem Fox, 1998 Boris von der Borch is a mean, greedy old pirate--tough as nails, through and through, like all pirates. Or is he? When a young boy sneaks into Boris' ship, he discovers that Boris and his mates aren't quite what he expected! Full color.
  tough boris: Tough Boris Mem Fox, 1994 Boris is a very tough pirate. But Boris has a soft spot for his beloved parrot. Preschool to grade 2.
  tough boris: Hard to Be a God , 2014-06-01 This 1963 masterpiece is widely considered one of the best novels of the greatest Russian writers of science fiction. Yet until now the only English version (unavailable for over thirty years) was based on a German translation, and was full of errors, infelicities, and misunderstandings. Now, in a new translation by Olena Bormashenko, whose translation of the authors’ Roadside Picnic has received widespread acclaim, here is the definitive edition of this brilliant work. It tells the story of Don Rumata, who is sent from Earth to the medieval kingdom of Arkanar with instructions to observe and to save what he can. Masquerading as an arrogant nobleman, a dueler and a brawler, Don Rumata is never defeated, but can never kill. With his doubt and compassion, and his deep love for a local girl named Kira, Rumata wants to save the kingdom from the machinations of Don Reba, the first minister to the king. But given his orders, what role can he play? Hard to Be a God has inspired a role-playing video game and two movies, including Aleksei German’s long-awaited swan song. This long overdue translation will reintroduce one of the most profound Soviet-era novels to an eager audience. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky were famous and popular Russian writers of science fiction, with more than 25 novels and novellas to their names. Hari Kunzru is the author of highly praised novels including Gods Without Men and The Impressionist. Olena Bormashenko is the acclaimed translator of the Strugatskys’ Roadside Picnic.
  tough boris: The Churchill Factor Boris Johnson, 2015-10-27 From London’s inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the New York Times–bestselling story of how Churchill’s eccentric genius shaped not only his world but our own. On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill’s death, Boris Johnson celebrates the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality, he portrays—with characteristic wit and passion—a man of contagious bravery, breathtaking eloquence, matchless strategizing, and deep humanity. Fearless on the battlefield, Churchill had to be ordered by the king to stay out of action on D-day; he pioneered aerial bombing and few could match his experience in organizing violence on a colossal scale, yet he hated war and scorned politicians who had not experienced its horrors. He was the most famous journalist of his time and perhaps the greatest orator of all time, despite a lisp and the chronic depression he kept at bay by painting. His maneuvering positioned America for entry into World War II, even as it ushered in England’s postwar decline. His open-mindedness made him a trailblazer in health care, education, and social welfare, though he remained incorrigibly politically incorrect. Most of all, he was a rebuttal to the idea that history is the story of vast and impersonal forces; he is proof that one person—intrepid, ingenious, determined—can make all the difference.
  tough boris: Hothouse Boris Kachka, 2013-08-06 “Mad Men for the literary world.” —Junot Díaz Farrar, Straus and Giroux is arguably the most influential publishing house of the modern era. Home to an unrivaled twenty-five Nobel Prize winners and generation-defining authors like T. S. Eliot, Flannery O’Connor, Susan Sontag, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Philip Roth, and Jonathan Franzen, it’s a cultural institution whose importance approaches that of The New Yorker or The New York Times. But FSG is no ivory tower—the owner's wife called the office a “sexual sewer”—and its untold story is as tumultuous and engrossing as many of the great novels it has published. Boris Kachka deftly reveals the era and the city that built FSG through the stories of two men: founder-owner Roger Straus, the pugnacious black sheep of his powerful German-Jewish family—with his bottomless supply of ascots, charm, and vulgarity of every stripe—and his utter opposite, the reticent, closeted editor Robert Giroux, who rose from working-class New Jersey to discover the novelists and poets who helped define American culture. Giroux became one of T. S. Eliot’s best friends, just missed out on The Catcher in the Rye, and played the placid caretaker to manic-depressive geniuses like Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Jean Stafford, and Jack Kerouac. Straus, the brilliant showman, made Susan Sontag a star, kept Edmund Wilson out of prison, and turned Isaac Bashevis Singer from a Yiddish scribbler into a Nobelist—even as he spread the gossip on which literary New York thrived. A prolific lover and an epic fighter, Straus ventured fearlessly, and sometimes recklessly, into battle for his books, his authors, and his often-struggling company. When a talented editor left for more money and threatened to take all his writers, Roger roared, “Over my dead body”—and meant it. He turned a philosophical disagreement with Simon & Schuster head Dick Snyder into a mano a mano media war that caught writers such as Philip Roth and Joan Didion in the crossfire. He fought off would-be buyers like S. I. Newhouse (“that dwarf”) with one hand and rapacious literary agents like Andrew Wylie (“that shit”) with the other. Even his own son and presumed successor was no match for a man who had to win at any cost—and who was proven right at almost every turn. At the center of the story, always, are the writers themselves. After giving us a fresh perspective on the postwar authors we thought we knew, Kachka pulls back the curtain to expose how elite publishing works today. He gets inside the editorial meetings where writers’ fates are decided; he captures the adrenaline rush of bidding wars for top talent; and he lifts the lid on the high-stakes pursuit of that rarest commodity, public attention—including a fly-on-the-wall account of the explosive confrontation between Oprah Winfrey and Jonathan Franzen, whose relationship, Franzen tells us, “was bogus from the start.” Vast but detailed, full of both fresh gossip and keen insight into how the literary world works, Hothouse is the product of five years of research and nearly two hundred interviews by a veteran New York magazine writer. It tells an essential story for the first time, providing a delicious inside perspective on the rich pageant of postwar cultural life and illuminating the vital intellectual center of the American Century.
  tough boris: Airplanes, Women, and Song Bois Sergievsky, 1998-12-01 Boris Sergievsky was one of the most colorful of the early aviators. He made his first flight less than ten years after the Wright brothers made theirs; he made his last only four years before the Concorde took off. Born in Russia, Sergievsky learned to fly in 1912. In World War I, he became a much-decorated infantry officer and then a fighter pilot, battling the Austro-Hungarians. During the Russian Civil War that followed, he fought on three fronts against the Bolsheviks. Coming to America in 1923, the first job he could find in New York was with a pick and shovel, digging the Holland Tunnel, but he soon joined Igor Sikorsky’s airplane company. Over the next decade as chief test pilot for the company, he tested the Sikorsky flying boats that Pan American Airways used to establish its world-wide routes, setting seventeen world aviation records along the way. Sergievsky also flew pioneering flights across unchartered African and Latin American jungles in the 1930s, flew with Charles Lindbergh, tested early helicopters and jets, and flew his own Grumman Mallard on charter flights until 1965. Through it all, his sense of humor remained intact, as did his passion for beautiful women.
  tough boris: Through the Maelstrom Boris Gorbachevsky, 2015-03-27 The monumental battles of World War II's Eastern Front--Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk--are etched into the historical record. But there is another, hidden history of that war that has too often been ignored in official accounts. Boris Gorbachevsky was a junior officer in the 31st Army who first saw front-line duty as a rifleman in the 30th Army. Through the Maelstrom recounts his three harrowing years on some of the war's grimmest but forgotten battlefields: the campaign for Rzhev, the bloody struggle to retake Belorussia, and the bitter final fighting in East Prussia. As he traces his experiences from his initial training, through the maelstrom, to final victory, he provides one of the richest and most detailed memoirs of life and warfare on the Eastern Front. Gorbachevsky's panoramic account takes us from infantry specialist school to the front lines to rear services areas and his whirlwind romances in wartime Moscow. He recalls the shriek of Katiusha rockets flying overhead toward the enemy and the unforgettable howl of Stukas divebombing Soviet tanks. And he conveys horrors of brutal fighting not recorded previously in English, including his own participation in a human wave assault that decimated his regiment at Rzhev, with piles of corpses growing the closer they got to the German trenches. Gorbachevsky also records the sufferings of the starving citizens of Leningrad, the savage execution of a Russian scout who turned in false information, the killing of an innocent German trying to welcome the Soviet troops, and a chilling campfire discussion by four Russian soldiers as they compared notes about the women they'd raped. His memoir brims with rich descriptions of daily army life, the challenges of maintaining morale, and relationships between soldiers. It also includes candid exposs of the many problems the Red Army faced: the influence of political officers, the stubbornness of senior commanders, the attrition through desertions, and the initial months of occupation in postwar Germany. Through the Maelstrom features the swiftly moving narrative and rich dialogue associated with the grand style of great Russian literature. Ultimately, it provides a fitting and final testament to soldiers who fought and died in anonymity.
  tough boris: Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo Boris Fishman, 2016-03-01 The author of the critically admired, award-winning A Replacement Life turns to a different kind of story—an evocative, nuanced portrait of marriage and family, a woman reckoning with what she’s given up to make both work, and the universal question of how we reconcile who we are and whom the world wants us to be. Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin met in 1992, when she was a Ukrainian exchange student with “a devil in [her] head” about becoming a chef instead of a medical worker, and he the coddled son of Russian immigrants wanting to toe the water of a less predictable life. Twenty years later, Maya Rubin is a medical worker in suburban New Jersey, and Alex his father’s second in the family business. The great dislocation of their lives is their eight-year-old son Max—adopted from two teenagers in Montana despite Alex’s view that “adopted children are second-class.” At once a salvation and a mystery to his parents—with whom Max’s biological mother left the child with the cryptic exhortation “don’t let my baby do rodeo”—Max suddenly turns feral, consorting with wild animals, eating grass, and running away to sit face down in a river. Searching for answers, Maya convinces Alex to embark on a cross-country trip to Montana to track down Max’s birth parents—the first drive west of New Jersey of their American lives. But it’s Maya who’s illuminated by the journey, her own erstwhile wildness summoned for a reckoning by the unsparing landscape, with seismic consequences for herself and her family. Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo is a novel about the mystery of inheritance and what exactly it means to belong.
  tough boris: The Joke's on Me Laurie Boris, 2020-04-22 When a mudslide plummets her hopes, her home, and her entire collection of impractical footwear into the Pacific, former actress and stand-up comic Frankie Goldberg takes the only possession she has left - a cherry red Corvette convertible - and drives east to her family's bed and breakfast in Woodstock, New York. This begins a journey into the family she left behind, the family she joked about in her act. But the joke's on Frankie. While she was doing impressions of her slightly menopausal Jewish mother and her sister the serial divorcee, her family was slowly leaving her. And maybe that joke is just too new to be funny. Travel along with fearless Frankie as she puzzles through that eternal dilemma of coming back home to find that nothing is where you left it.
  tough boris: QlikView Your Business Oleg Troyansky, Tammy Gibson, Charlie Leichtweis, 2015-08-10 Unlock the meaning of your data with QlikView The Qlik platform was designed to provide a fast and easy data analytics tool, and QlikView Your Business is your detailed, full-color, step-by-step guide to understanding Qlikview's powerful features and techniques so you can quickly start unlocking your data’s potential. This expert author team brings real-world insight together with practical business analytics, so you can approach, explore, and solve business intelligence problems using the robust Qlik toolset and clearly communicate your results to stakeholders using powerful visualization features in QlikView and Qlik Sense. This book starts at the basic level and dives deep into the most advanced QlikView techniques, delivering tangible value and knowledge to new users and experienced developers alike. As an added benefit, every topic presented is enhanced with tips, tricks, and insightful recommendations that the authors accumulated through years of developing QlikView analytics. This is the book for you: If you are a developer whose job is to load transactional data into Qlik BI environment, and who needs to understand both the basics and the most advanced techniques of Qlik data modelling and scripting If you are a data analyst whose job is to develop actionable and insightful QlikView visualizations to share within your organization If you are a project manager or business person, who wants to get a better understanding of the Qlik Business Intelligence platform and its capabilities What You Will Learn: The book covers three common business scenarios - Sales, Profitability, and Inventory Analysis. Each scenario contains four chapters, covering the four main disciplines of business analytics: Business Case, Data Modeling, Scripting, and Visualizations. The material is organized by increasing levels of complexity. Following our comprehensive tutorial, you will learn simple and advanced QlikView and Qlik Sense concepts, including the following: Data Modeling: Transforming Transactional data into Dimensional models Building a Star Schema Linking multiple fact tables using Link Tables Combing multiple tables into a single fact able using Concatenated Fact models Managing slowly changing dimensions Advanced date handling, using the As of Date table Calculating running balances Basic and Advanced Scripting: How to use the Data Load Script language for implementing data modeling techniques How to build and use the QVD data layer Building a multi-tier data architectures Using variables, loops, subroutines, and other script control statements Advanced scripting techniques for a variety of ETL solutions Building Insightful Visualizations in QlikView: Introduction into QlikView sheet objects — List Boxes, Text Objects, Charts, and more Designing insightful Dashboards in QlikView Using advanced calculation techniques, such as Set Analysis and Advanced Aggregation Using variables for What-If Analysis, as well as using variables for storing calculations, colors, and selection filters Advanced visualization techniques - normalized and non-normalized Mekko charts, Waterfall charts, Whale Tail charts, and more Building Insightful Visualizations in Qlik Sense: Introducing Qlik Sense - how it is different from QlikView and what is similar? Creating Sense sheet objects Building and using the Library of Master Items Exploring Qlik Sense unique features — Storytelling, Geo Mapping, and using Extensions Whether you are just starting out with QlikView or are ready to dive deeper, QlikView Your Business is your comprehensive guide to sharpening your QlikView skills and unleashing the power of QlikView in your organization.
  tough boris: A Replacement Life Boris Fishman, 2014-06-03 Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Winner of the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: Forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York. Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, “didn’t suffer in the exact way” he needs to have suffered to qualify for the restitution the German government has been paying out to Holocaust survivors. But suffer he has—as a Jew in the war; as a second-class citizen in the USSR; as an immigrant to America. So? Isn’t his grandson a “writer”? High-minded Slava wants to put all this immigrant scraping behind him. Only the American Dream is not panning out for him—Century, the legendary magazine where he works as a researcher, wants nothing greater from him. Slava wants to be a correct, blameless American—but he wants to be a lionized writer even more. Slava’s turn as the Forger of South Brooklyn teaches him that not every fact is the truth, and not every lie a falsehood. It takes more than law-abiding to become an American; it takes the same self-reinvention in which his people excel. Intoxicated and unmoored by his inventions, Slava risks exposure. Cornered, he commits an irrevocable act that finally grants him a sense of home in America, but not before collecting a price from his family. A Replacement Life is a dark, moving, and beautifully written novel about family, honor, and justice.
  tough boris: Down the Road Alice Schertle, 1995 Hetty is very careful with the eggs she has bought on her very first trip to the store, but she forgets to be careful when she stops to pick apples.
  tough boris: The Moscow Puzzles Boris A. Kordemsky, 1992-04-10 A collection of math and logic puzzles features number games, magic squares, tricks, problems with dominoes and dice, and cross sums, in addition to other intellectual teasers.
  tough boris: Calm Down, Boris! Sam Lloyd, 2011-07-06 Boris is often too big, kissy and tickly to get along well with others, but when a scary dog jumps over the fence into the park, being, big, kissy and tickly is just what's needed.
  tough boris: Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild Mem Fox, 2000 Publisher Description
  tough boris: Mutiny Boris Gindin, David Hagberg, 2008-05-13 The amazing true story behind the mutiny that inspired Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October, by USA Today bestselling author David Hagberg and Boris Gindin, a Senior Lieutenant in the Russian navy, who stopped the mutiny and lived to tell about it. In 1984, Tom Clancy released his blockbuster novel, The Hunt for Red October, an edge-of-your seat thriller that skyrocketed him into international notoriety. The inspiration for that novel came from an obscure report by a US naval officer of a mutiny aboard a Soviet warship in the Baltic Sea. The Hunt for Red October actually happened, and Boris Gindin lived through every minute of it. After decades of silence and fear, Gindin has finally come forward to tell the entire story of the mutiny aboard the FFG Storozhevoy, the real-life Red October. It was the fall of 1975, and the tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States were climbing. It seemed the two nations were headed for thermonuclear war, and it was that fear that caused most of the crewman of the FFG Storozhevoy to mutiny. Their goal was to send a message to the Soviet people that the Communist government was corrupt and major changes were needed. That message never reached a single person. Within hours the orders came from on high to destroy the Storozhevoy and its crew members. And this would have happened if it weren't for Gindin and few others whose heroism saved many lives. Now, with the help of USA Today bestselling author David Hagberg, Gindin relives every minute of that harrowing event. From the danger aboard the ship to the threats of death from the KGB to the fear that forced him to flee the Soviet Union for the United States, Mutiny reveals the real-life story behind The Hunt for Red October and offers an eye-opening look at the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
  tough boris: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Clara Cella, 2012-07 Full-color photographs and simple text provide a brief introduction to Martin Luther King Jr. Day--Provided by publisher.
  tough boris: Tough Boris Mem Fox, 1994 Although he is a very tough pirate, Boris von der Borch cries when his parrots dies.
  tough boris: Who Will be My Mother? [Big Book] Joy Cowley, 2006
  tough boris: A Terrible Country Keith Gessen, 2018-07-10 “Hilarious. . . . To understand Russia, read A Terrible Country.” —Time This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it. —Dwight Garner, The New York Times Hilarious, heartbreaking . . . A Terrible Country may be one of the best books you'll read this year. —Ann Levin, Associated Press A New York Times Editors' Choice Named a Best Book of 2018 by Bookforum, Nylon, Esquire, and Vulture A literary triumph about Russia, family, love, and loyalty—from a founding editor of n+1 and the author of Raising Raffi When Andrei Kaplan’s older brother Dima insists that Andrei return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother, Andrei must take stock of his life in New York. His girlfriend has stopped returning his text messages. His dissertation adviser is dubious about his job prospects. It’s the summer of 2008, and his bank account is running dangerously low. Perhaps a few months in Moscow are just what he needs. So Andrei sublets his room in Brooklyn, packs up his hockey stuff, and moves into the apartment that Stalin himself had given his grandmother, a woman who has outlived her husband and most of her friends. She survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia’s violent capitalist transformation, during which she lost her beloved dacha. She welcomes Andrei into her home, even if she can’t always remember who he is. Andrei learns to navigate Putin’s Moscow, still the city of his birth, but with more expensive coffee. He looks after his elderly—but surprisingly sharp!—grandmother, finds a place to play hockey, a café to send emails, and eventually some friends, including a beautiful young activist named Yulia. Over the course of the year, his grandmother’s health declines and his feelings of dislocation from both Russia and America deepen. Andrei knows he must reckon with his future and make choices that will determine his life and fate. When he becomes entangled with a group of leftists, Andrei’s politics and his allegiances are tested, and he is forced to come to terms with the Russian society he was born into and the American one he has enjoyed since he was a kid. A wise, sensitive novel about Russia, exile, family, love, history and fate, A Terrible County asks what you owe the place you were born, and what it owes you. Writing with grace and humor, Keith Gessen gives us a brilliant and mature novel that is sure to mark him as one of the most talented novelists of his generation.
  tough boris: Hattie and the Fox Mem Fox, 2016-09-27 Hattie the Hen spots the danger--but no none seems to care!--Pg 4 of cover.
  tough boris: Red War Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills, 2018-09-25 This instant #1 New York Times bestseller and “modern techno-thriller” (New York Journal of Books) follows covert operative Mitch Rapp in a terrifying race to stop Russia’s gravely ill leader from starting a full-scale war with NATO. When Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he has inoperable brain cancer, he’s determined to cling to power. His first task is to kill or imprison any countrymen threatening him. But when his illness becomes increasingly serious, he decides on a dramatic diversion—war with the West. Upon learning of Krupin’s condition, CIA director Irene Kennedy understands that the US is facing an opponent who has nothing to lose. The only way to avoid a confrontation that could leave millions dead is to send Mitch Rapp to Russia under impossibly dangerous orders. With the Kremlin’s entire security apparatus hunting him, he must find and kill a man many have deemed the most powerful in the world. The fate of the free world hangs in the balance in this “timely, explosive novel that shows yet again why Mitch Rapp is the best hero the thriller genre has to offer” (The Real Book Spy).
  tough boris: Agent of Chaos Norman Spinrad, 1972 The Hegemonic Council has scanner eyes everywhere. If anyone is caught doing a forbidden act by the scanner eyes, they are vaporized. Scanner eyes are in every public place, and soon to be in private residences. The populace doesn't seem to mind too much, as their government has gotten rid of disease, hunger, unemployment, war, and other problems. Boris Johnson is part of an underground rebellion, the rather unorganized Democratic League. Plot after plot to unseat or assassinate the Hegmonic leader is squashed by a secretive group called the Brotherhood of Assassins, who has spies everywhere. The Hegemonic government is on the side of control and order, the Democratic League is on the side of personal freedoms, and the Brotherhood of Assassins are on the side of Chaos.
  tough boris: Which Would You Rather Be? William Steig, 2002-06-04 A stick or a stone? A cat or a dog? Rain or snow? Which would you rather be?
  tough boris: One Hungry Monster Susan Heyboer O'Keefe, 2008-11-16 At bedtime a small boy tries to control ten insatiable monsters demanding food and creating chaos throughout the house.
  tough boris: Talk, Inc. Boris Groysberg, Michael Slind, 2012-05-29 Conversation-powered leadership How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the “magic”—the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement—that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more executives have discovered in recent years, the answer to this conundrum lies in the power of conversation. In Talk, Inc., Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind show how trusted and effective leaders are adapting the principles of face-to-face conversation in order to pursue a new form of organizational conversation. They explore the promise of conversation-powered leadership—from the time-tested practice of talking straight (and listening well) to the thoughtful adoption of social media technology. And they offer guidance on how to balance the benefits of open-ended talk with the realities of strategic execution. Drawing on the experience of leaders at diverse companies from around the world, Talk, Inc., offers provocative insights and user-friendly tips on how to make organizational culture more intimate, more interactive, more inclusive, and more intentional—in short, more conversational.
  tough boris: You Can Do Anything Boris Cherniak, 2016-03
  tough boris: Night Noises Mem Fox, 1989 SUMMARY: Lillie Laceby's family suprise her on her 90th birthday with a party.
  tough boris: The Boost C++ Libraries Boris Schäling, 2011 Boris Schaling has written the definitive introduction to the Boost C++ Libraries. Based on his popular web site, his book provides over 250 examples that show you how to get the most from this important library. You will learn how to use the libraries for event handling, multithreading, asynchronous I/O, parsing, string handling, and much more. His book will help you write more reliable code and become a more productive programmer. The Boost C++ Libraries complement the C++ standard by adding practical tools that any C++ developer can use in any C++ project. They are based on the C++ standard and many of the libraries will be incorporated into the next version of the standard. The software is freely available and the project is supported by a large developer community
  tough boris: Shooters Jonathan Snowden, 2012 Shooters tells the stories of athletes like Brock Lesnar and Bobby Lashley, men who have lived their lives on the border between 'works' and 'shoots', between the routines of the professional wrestling circuit and the legitimate confrontations that made their reputations. From catch wrestling masters Ad Santel and Billy Robinson to pro-wrestling icons like Strangler Lewis and Lou Thesz, from Olympic heroes Danny Hodge and Kurt Angle, Shooters takes readers from the shadowy carnival tent and the dingy training hall to the bright lights of the squared circle.
  tough boris: The Earth and I Frank Asch, 2008 A child explains how he and the Earth dance and sing together and take turns listening to each other.
  tough boris: The Littlest Matryoshka Corinne Bliss, 1999-09-01 In this tender, old-fashioned story, Nina, the smallest of a group of Russian nesting dolls, is separated from her sisters and swept along on a dangerous journey.
  tough boris: Wax to Crayons Inez Snyder, 2003-03-01 An introduction to the process by which wax is transformed into crayons.
  tough boris: Boris Johnson Tom Bower, 2020-10-15 Guardian 'literary highlights of 2020' Sunday Times 'books to watch out for in 2020' New Statesman 'books to read in 2020' Evening Standard 'thirteen titles to look for in 2020' As divisive as he is beguiling, as misunderstood as he is scrutinised, Boris Johnson is a singular figure. Many of us think we know his story well. His ruthless ambition was evident from his insistence, as a three-year-old, that he would one day be 'world king'. Eton and Oxford prepared him well for a frantic career straddling the dog-eat-dog worlds of journalism and politics. His transformation from bumbling stooge on Have I Got New for You to a triumphant Mayor of London was overshadowed only by his colourful personal life, brimming with affairs, scandals and transgressions. His ascent to Number 10 in the wake of the acrimonious, era-defining Brexit referendum would prove to be only the first act in an epic drama that saw him play both hero and villain - from proroguing parliament to his controversial leadership of the Covid-19 Crisis, all against the backdrop of divorce, marriage, the birth of his sixth child, revolts among Tory MPs and the countdown to Brexit. Yet despite his celebrity, decades of media scrutiny, the endless vitriol of his critics and the enduring adoration of his supporters, there is so much we've never understood about Boris - until now. Previous biographies have either dismissed him as a lazy, deceitful opportunist or been transfixed by his charm, wit and drive. Both approaches fall short, and so many questions about Boris remain unanswered. What seismic events of his childhood have evaded scrutiny? How has he so consistently defied the odds, proved his critics wrong, and got away with increasingly reckless gambles? What were his real achievements and failures as Mayor of London, what was really going on during his time as Foreign Secretary, and why did he write two articles for the Telegraph, one in favour of Leave and the other for Remain? How have the women in his life exerted more influence than any of us realise, and why is his story ultimately one overshadowed by family secrets? Based on a wealth of new interviews and research, this is the deepest, most rounded and most comprehensive portrait to date of the man, the mind, the politics, the affairs, the family - of a loner, a lover, a leader. Revelatory, unsettling and compulsively readable, it is the most timely and indispensable book yet from Britain's leading investigative biographer.
  tough boris: Do Not Open This Book! Joy Cowley, 1998 Book featuring rhyme, rhythm and repetition. Specially crafted for shared reading and writing. The storylines are full of humour that children will love. Age range: 4-9. Provides thorough coverage of the Literacy Strategy requirements for Foundation (P1), Year 1 (P2), and Year 2 (P3). Can also be used with Year 3 (P4). Size: 48cm tall x 34cm wide. Published 1998. 16 pages.
  tough boris: In a Dark Dark Wood Joy Cowley, 1983-01 Teacher's book for reading aloud in front of class.
  tough boris: A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children's Picture Books Arsenio Jesús Moya Guijarro, Eija Ventola, 2023-09-25 A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children's Picture Books is a collection of research papers in the fields of multimodality and picture books. 1 The chapters broaden the previous analyses of this genre, carried out from content, psychological, literary and didactic points of view.
  tough boris: There was an Old Pirate who Swallowed a Fish Jennifer Ward, 2012 This variation on the traditional, cumulative rhyme looks at the consequences of a pirate's strange diet.
  tough boris: Freaky Friday Mary Rodgers, 2025-04-22 Mary Rodgers's Freaky Friday has been making middle graders laugh aloud for more than forty years. Now the original body-swapping tale has a brand-new repackaged cover just in time for the upcoming spin-off movie sequel, Freakier Friday. Annabel Andrews is tired of her mother telling her what to do. Finish her homework, clean her room--and worst of all, be nice to her little brother. If she were an adult, Annabel would do anything she wanted. She'd watch TV all day and eat marshmallows for breakfast. Then, one freaky Friday, Annabel's wish comes true. She wakes up in her mother's body . . . and quickly finds out that being an adult is not as easy--or as fun--as she thought!
tough和rough的区别？ - 知乎
Tough is a word that we usually use in everyday life in the US. 在美国，我们在日常生活中经常使用tough这个词。 When we use the word tough, if for a person, we could refer to someone being …

用tough形容一个女老板是褒义还是贬义？ - 知乎
我觉得tough形容人有两种解释：1 在体育比赛中常常听到的tough player这种，是形容一个运动员强硬，推演到一般人也就是坚强勇敢这种意思。本句中的tough应该就是此意。2 tough应该还可以指一 …

rigid,hard,stiff,tough这些词有什么不同？ - 知乎
Aug 23, 2017 · The steak was tough and the peas were like bullets. 牛排老得嚼不动，豌豆像子弹一样硬。 这几个词汇，如果看中文部分的注释，你可能会觉得头脑发昏，但是看例句，就很容易理解 …

tough+软件如何使用，代码如何编写？ - 知乎
TOUGH2系列软件传统地下水模拟软件Feflow和Modflow不同，TOUGH2系列软件采用模块化设计和有限积分差网格剖分方法，通过配合不同EOS模块，软件可以处理各种复杂地质条件下，诸如地热能开 …

各位大神，谁知道tough+hydrete软件哪里能下载？ - 知乎
TOUGH2系列软件传统地下水模拟软件Feflow和Modflow不同，TOUGH2系列软件采用模块化设计和有限积分差网格剖分方法，通过配合不同EOS模块，软件可以处理各种复杂地质条件下，诸如地热能开 …

「Tough times don't last, tough people do.」这句话怎么 ... - 知乎
Jun 7, 2013 · 「Tough times don't last, tough people do.」这句话怎么翻译比较有中国味？ 本来英文的意思比较到位，但只能意会不好言传。 今天早上冒了一个“没有过不去的坎，有志者事竟成”，但 …

文章投稿被退回，要求添加伦理审查信息，怎么办？ - 知乎
Mar 10, 2020 · 但问题来了，两个审稿人都指出了我们这个问题，认为我们是“涉及人的实验”所以一定要提供伦理审查，其中一个审稿人语气非常tough，还说没有伦理审查根本就不存在发表的可能。

传统HR部门向HR三支柱(COE、BP、SSC)转型，SSC有发展前景 …
所以你知道对于许多HRBP，一天最难受是早起时，感叹又是tough的一天，要躺在床上搞半天心里建设才能起得来。 而SSC的业务就简单轻松多了，不拖沓地把所有的单据按时搞完，70分就拿到了。

tough和rough的区别？ - 知乎
Tough is a word that we usually use in everyday life in the US. 在美国，我们在日常生活中经常使用tough这个词。 When we use the word tough, if for a person, we could refer to someone …

用tough形容一个女老板是褒义还是贬义？ - 知乎
我觉得tough形容人有两种解释：1 在体育比赛中常常听到的tough player这种，是形容一个运动员强硬，推演到一般人也就是坚强勇敢这种意思。本句中的tough应该就是此意。2 tough应该还 …

rigid,hard,stiff,tough这些词有什么不同？ - 知乎
Aug 23, 2017 · The steak was tough and the peas were like bullets. 牛排老得嚼不动，豌豆像子弹一样硬。 这几个词汇，如果看中文部分的注释，你可能会觉得头脑发昏，但是看例句，就很 …

tough+软件如何使用，代码如何编写？ - 知乎
TOUGH2系列软件传统地下水模拟软件Feflow和Modflow不同，TOUGH2系列软件采用模块化设计和有限积分差网格剖分方法，通过配合不同EOS模块，软件可以处理各种复杂地质条件下，诸 …

各位大神，谁知道tough+hydrete软件哪里能下载？ - 知乎
TOUGH2系列软件传统地下水模拟软件Feflow和Modflow不同，TOUGH2系列软件采用模块化设计和有限积分差网格剖分方法，通过配合不同EOS模块，软件可以处理各种复杂地质条件下，诸 …

「Tough times don't last, tough people do.」这句话怎么 ... - 知乎
Jun 7, 2013 · 「Tough times don't last, tough people do.」这句话怎么翻译比较有中国味？ 本来英文的意思比较到位，但只能意会不好言传。 今天早上冒了一个“没有过不去的坎，有志者事竟 …

文章投稿被退回，要求添加伦理审查信息，怎么办？ - 知乎
Mar 10, 2020 · 但问题来了，两个审稿人都指出了我们这个问题，认为我们是“涉及人的实验”所以一定要提供伦理审查，其中一个审稿人语气非常tough，还说没有伦理审查根本就不存在发表的 …

传统HR部门向HR三支柱(COE、BP、SSC)转型，SSC有发展前景 …
所以你知道对于许多HRBP，一天最难受是早起时，感叹又是tough的一天，要躺在床上搞半天心里建设才能起得来。 而SSC的业务就简单轻松多了，不拖沓地把所有的单据按时搞完，70分就 …