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Learn about Murphy's Law with iMinds insightful knowledge series. Murphy's Law is a tongue-in-cheek and rather pessimistic adage of eight simple words: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. The translation of these words into "Murphy's Law" was in honour of US aerospace engineer Edward Aloysius Murphy Junior. Legend has it that in 1949 Murphy made an offhand comment to his colleagues while working at an Air Force Base in California. His team was testing human tolerance for g-forces during rapid deceleration. The experiments involved Air Force officer John Stapp being strapped into a sled moving at great speed. As the sled decelerated, an instrument was supposed to take readings of the g-forces Stapp experienced. iMinds brings targeted knowledge to your eReading device with short information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

New York Times bestselling contemporary romance author Lori Foster—renowned for her special brand of sexy and mysterious heroes—promises to dazzle a whole new readership with this sensually repackaged classic tale of best laid plans! ANYTHING THAT CAN GO WRONG . . . Nothing is going to go wrong. Ashley Miles has worked too hard for her independence to let some Bentley-driving hunk named Quinton Murphy interfere with her plans—or her freedom. Yes, the chemistry is phenomenal. Kind of scary, actually. But that’s it. NO emotional commitments. . . . WILL But he’s SO wonderful—a woman could fall in love . . . How did that happen? That wasn’t part of the plan! But can she trust him? Really trust him? The man is just so mysterious. There’s only one solution: put it all on the line and see what Quinton does when she tells him how she feels. And hope everything that can go wrong . . . won’t . . .

For more than a quarter of a century, Murphy's Law has provided the last word on things going wrong. Positive thinking is all very fine when the world is treating you right, but when things go awry, it's Murphy's Law that comes up with the goods-the pithy revelations and undeniable truths that document our limitless potential for misplaced insight, hopeless wit, and pessimistic wisdom. This special anniversary collection features the best of Murphy's Law--plus new 21st-century entries proving that with advances in technology, even more can go wrong. For example: No matter what goes wrong, there is always somebody who knew it would. Anything is easier to take apart than to put together. For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. The less you do, the less can go wrong. Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.

Murphy's Law is one of the most well-recognized statements of philosophy known to man. Tipped off by his next door neighbor that Murphy may have worked at Edwards Air Force Base, and that the Law may have come into being after a rocket sled experiment went awry, author Nick T. Spark beings a Quixotic quest to learn the truth. His attempts to pin down the mysterious origins of The Law and to answer the eternal question, "Who was Murphy and what is the true meaning of Murphy's Law?" are both amusing and relevatory. Read it, and find out why everything you ever thought you knew about Murphy's Law -- is wrong.

MURPHY'S LAW Michael Francis Patrick Murphy, Esq. I am Michael Francis Patrick Murphy, an Irish American who naturally inherited the 'Luck of the Irish'. Born with a silver spoon in my mouth, I also had a wonderful family with loving parents. My many bothers, sisters, and I all got along very well with each other. My family made sure I received the finest of educations. All of this got me off to a good start in life. In our family we seemed to inherit the 'Luck of the Irish'. My problem though was this; the luck of the Irish as most people think of it, as good luck, skips every other generation. What that works out to is this, one generation has it good, but the next one gets the bad luck and on and on. So as soon as I moved out on my own, my bad luck set in. Oddly enough is that because I grew up in such an ideal family, it made things worse. By reason of my favorable upbringing, I was poorly prepared for what I had to face in the real world. Out on my own, I quickly realized that nothing was going to go right for me. It did not matter what I did or how I went about it, success never came my way. Instead, failure overshadowed me with relentlessness. I put up with this for a very long time, as though I had a choice in the matter. I had inherited the patience of my saintly mother, God bless her soul, and the persistence of my father, may he rest in peace. However, you can only produce failure for so long before you have to pay the piper. Then I lost my job, my friends and my sense of humor. Because of my fine education, I made it my practice to keep a journal. From this I discovered the thing that haunted me, keeping me at a constant loss in all areas of my life. It was a Law of Nature that cut across every scientific field, transcended every other law of nature and singled out certain persons more than others. These I named Murphy's Law. MFP Murphy

Murphy's Law - popularly known as Sod's Law - with acknowledgements to Parkinson's Law and the Peter Principle - explains the truth of man's existence: that if anything can go wrong, it will. In three volumes of murphology, Arthur Bloch has provided the only comfort possible - laughter - for all those who have ever been exasperated by things going wrong, with a set of rules offering a wise and witty view of the human predicament in the cosmos.