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How to Predict the Weather with a Cup of Coffee: And Other Techniques for Surviving the 9-To-5 Jungle [Pehme köide]

(The Open University, UK)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 208 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 198x129x19 mm, kaal: 249 g, Illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2011
  • Kirjastus: Reader's Digest Association
  • ISBN-10: 1606522434
  • ISBN-13: 9781606522431
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 208 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 198x129x19 mm, kaal: 249 g, Illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2011
  • Kirjastus: Reader's Digest Association
  • ISBN-10: 1606522434
  • ISBN-13: 9781606522431
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"More than just a modern survival guide, How to Predict the Weather with a Cup of Coffee gives you the means to make your life more interesting. Harnessing the laws of science, nature, and human behavior, author Matthew Cole revisits and humorously reinvents the little tricks and ingenious solutions developed in the past with an updated twist for the 21st century. In How to Predict the Weather with a Cup of Coffee, you'll learn: - How to cook a perfect steamed fish while running your dishwasher. - Step-by-step instructions for getting to the front of a grocery store line. - How to screen phone calls using your microwave"--

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Preface 8(14)
Introduction 12
1 The Indoor Bushman
Screening Calls with a Microwave
22(3)
Microwave Safety Test with a Cell Phone
25(1)
The Freezer Fights Back
26(2)
Dishwasher Cooking
28(2)
Vet Your Friends with a Pet
30(1)
The Pet Lie Detector
31(2)
The Weekend Bushman
33(1)
How to Turn Your TV into a Cosmic Time Machine
34(3)
Forecast Storms with a TV Set
37(1)
The Truth about the Remote Control
38(2)
Carpet Stealth
40(2)
The Indoor Forager
42(6)
The Ceiling Sundial
48(8)
2 Travel with A Small "T"
Driving by Numbers
56(1)
Cars: Bushman behind the Wheel
57(1)
Finding Parked Cars the Native American Way
58(5)
Why Men Love Giving Directions
63(1)
Hey, Where's My Cell Phone?
64(2)
Car-Engine Cooking
66(8)
The Bushman at the Bus Stop/Commuting
74(8)
The Gotham Solstice
82(1)
Mailing Letters the Lazy Way
83(5)
3 The Human Multi-Tool
Distance and Time---Adventures in 4-D
88(8)
Pace Yourself
96(10)
4 City Adventures
How to Predict the Weather with a Cup of Coffee
106(3)
The Special Forces Approach to Customer Complaints
109(9)
The Mall of the Wild
112(5)
The White Coffee Challenge
117(2)
Toilet Wisdom
119(1)
The ATM (and how to cut it)
120(4)
The Secret Life of a Line
124(8)
The Sidewalk Tango
132(1)
Nut Jitsu
133(3)
5 When Disaster Strikes
The Urban Fire Starting Kit
136(2)
Starting a Fire with a Coke Can and a Chocolate Bar
138(3)
How to Turn Your Pants into a Backpack
141(1)
Emergency Coffee Device
142(2)
The Newspaper Body Warmer
144(1)
The Urban Robinson Crusoe Test
144(4)
Break a Lock with a Sock
148(4)
6 Workplace Strategy
In a Meeting
152(3)
Go Undercover without Leaving Your Desk
155(2)
Office Spycraft: Password Hacking
157(2)
Office Warfare
159(5)
The Office Trapper
164(5)
The Boredom of the Business Traveler
169(13)
7 Purely for Pleasure
Armchair Archaeology
182(7)
The Sidewalk Gardener
183(1)
Death to the Barbecue
184(3)
Mussel Men
187(1)
Navigating with City Bees
188(6)
120: The Secret to Cell Phone Happiness
194(4)
Things to Do in Starbucks
198(3)
Three Things You Didn't Know about Starbucks
201(6)
8 The Future
Epilogue 207