Bøker av Kathryn Petras

Uncommon times call for uncommon wisdom. It's inspiring to hear from people who've graduated from the school of hard knocks, yet kept a sense of humor. People like Twain, Voltaire, Oscar Wide. People who've said the thing so well that we all wish we'd said it. This title presents a collection of reassuring reality.

The thrill of victory, the agony of a tight jockstrap. It’s the reason we love sports—you never know what’s going to happen. Sometimes everything clicks, with the best athlete in the world competing at their peak, and the result is a thing of breathtaking beauty. But sometimes the opposite happens, resulting in moments of breathtaking hilarity, or astonishing inanity, or just plain head-scratching puzzlement. Welcome to The Stupidest Sports Book of All Time.Featuring: The most boring games in sports historyWise(ish) words on winningStupid mascot anticsThe strangest things coaches have done to motivate teamsAnd much, much more!

From famous craniums to prominent breasts, ancient spleens and bound feet, this book will bring history to life in a whole new way. With their inimitable wit and probing intelligence, authors Kathy and Ross Petras look at the role the human body has played throughout history as each individual part becomes a jumping-off point for a wider look at the times

A new, impulse-friendly collection of quotes from Kathy and Ross Petras, that celebrates our individuality and embracing and praises the imperfections that make us who we are. A gift that says: You be YOU, and you're great!

WHY NOW? WHY ME? Today, millions of women in their twenties and thirties, many of whom are just beginning to plan a family, are receiving the shocking news that their reproductive years are already over. They are in premature menopause -- menopause years before its time. Whether due to an autoimmune disorder, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or the often undiagnosed condition known as Premature Ovarian Failure (POF), premature menopause is common, increasing -- and almost always traumatic.If you are one of the women experiencing early menopause, you have hundreds of questions, but have probably found few answers...until now. The Premature Menopause Book is the first book focusing on this difficult transition -- written by a woman who faced the same questions: What can I do about it? Do I need hormones? How can I have a baby despite this condition? How can I feel like "me" again? The Premature Menopause Book provides the latest information on health and emotional issues, explores all of your options, lists resources, websites and support groups, shares the experiences and advice of women going through this experience, answers frequently asked questions and offers the support and understanding you need.

An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse.   Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot, redundant, and unique incorrectly every day. Don’t be one of them. Using examples of misuse from leading newspapers, prominent public figures and famous writers, among others, language gurus Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras explain how to avoid these perilous pitfalls in the English language. Each entry also includes short histories of how and why these mistake have happened, some of the (often surprisingly nasty) debates about which uses are (and are not) mistakes, and finally, how to use these words correctly … or why to not use them at all.  By the end of this book, every literati will be able to confidently, casually, and correctly toss in an “a priori” or a “limns” without hesitation.

There really always is something to celebrate, as Kathryn Petras truly learned when undergoing treatment for breast cancer. "Nothing is Worth More Than This Day" - a book with glass half full outlook. Building on Kathryn & Ross Petra's successful series of quotation books, it's the perfect gift for the good times and even the not so good times.

Pursuing a dream is hard work, but the right words delivered at the right timeΓÇöby people whoΓÇÖve been there and done thatΓÇöcan give us just the motivation we need. The right words can rekindle our enthusiasm, re-energize our efforts, dispel doubt, let us know weΓÇÖre not alone, and show us that the fight is worth itΓÇöand winnable. Kathryn and Ross Petras are masters at choosing and delivering just the right words. Their booksΓÇösuch as ΓÇ£Age DoesnΓÇÖt Matter Unless YouΓÇÖre a CheeseΓÇ¥ and ΓÇ£Dance First. Think Later.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöand bestselling calendar, The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said, have over 5.2 million copies in print. Now comes a book for dreamers and doers, plus writers, entrepreneurs, graduates, artists, future movers and shakers. Collecting the hard-won, brilliantly expressed advice from pioneers who have paved the way, including everyone from Rumi to Steve Jobs, Michelangelo to Oprah to Tina Fey, ΓÇ£It Always Seems Impossible Until ItΓÇÖs DoneΓÇ¥ is like a rousing locker-room speech, inspiring courage, commitment, and perseverance.ΓÇ£IΓÇÖve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. IΓÇÖve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, IΓÇÖve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. IΓÇÖve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöMichael JordanΓÇ£Go for it, baby! Life ainΓÇÖt no dress rehearsal.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöTallulah Bankhead ΓÇ£Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöNeil GaimanΓÇ£If you arenΓÇÖt in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöT. S. EliotΓÇ£It always seems impossible until itΓÇÖs done.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöNelson Mandela

Julia Child's secret of longevity was: "Red meat and gin". Full of surprise, insight, humour, perspective, celebration, inspiration and a kind of offhand, poignant poetry, this text shares hundreds of the best things men and women over 60 have said about how to love, work, laugh and live.