"What if the prophesied hero failed to defeat the Dark Lord?"--Jacket.

DIVProminent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films./div

Drawing on the stories of remarkable underdogs, history, science, psychology and his unparalleled ability to make the connections other miss, David and Goliathis a brilliant, illuminating book that overturns conventional thinking, and ...

In his sequel to Ignorance (Oxford University Press, 2012), Stuart Firestein shows us that the scientific enterprise is riddled with mistakes and errors - and that this is a good thing!

"Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!"

Suitable for contemporary readers, who wonder at the British and American knack for misguided adventure, this title features three essays on Custer, the Titanic, and the onset of World War I. It also includes essays on the problem of pride ...

Already rejected from classic fairy-tales, a happily-ever-after for these three seems a world away. So the trio is headed to the School of Failure.

An unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame and failure through writers who failed to achieve it.

"Gerald Middleton is a sixty-year-old self-proclaimed failure.