WordNet
n. taking the bull by the horns [syn: braving, confronting, grappling, tackling]
Wikipedia
The Coping With series of books is a series of books aimed at 11- to 16-year-olds, written by Peter Corey and published by Scholastic Hippo. The first book, Coping with Parents, was released in 1989, and the series continued until 2000, with the last book being Coping with Cash. The books take a humorous look at issues which affect teenagers and how to cope with these issues. The books are all generally built using the same basic structure:
- The first chapter is generally addressed to the reader before buying the book and persuading them to buy it.
- The author then introduces the (fictional) team of researchers who helped him write the book. Usually, the team includes ' Elderado Dingbatti', an escaped lunatic who frequently falls in love with pieces of furniture and confuses himself with Eldorado, the unsuccessful soap opera.
- Then follows a humorous description of how the subject of the book (such as education or currency) has developed through the ages.
- After this follows the A-Z section, which usually takes up most of the book. This section contains various elements related to the book's subject, arranged alphabetically. Every letter is used, which results in 'cheat' subjects only tenuously linked to the book itself e.g. " Zoological Friend (pet)" or "Xams (Exams): If your spelling is this bad, maybe higher education isn't for you!".
- Finally, the book ends with appendices and an afterword from the author.
The titles in the series, in order, are:
Coping With Book SeriesTitle
Publication Year
ISBN
Illustrator
Length (Pages)
Coping With Parents
1989
ISBN 0-590-76140-4
Martin Brown
139
Coping With Teachers
1991
ISBN 0-590-76485-3
Martin Brown
141
Coping With Girls/Boys
1992
ISBN 0-590-55044-6
Martin Brown
144 (72 each half)
Coping With School
1993
ISBN 0-590-55279-1
Martin Brown
143
Coping With The Family
1994
ISBN 0-590-55524-3
Martin Brown
144
Coping With Pets
1995
ISBN 0-590-55838-2
Martin Brown
144
Coping With Friends
1996
ISBN 0-590-13183-4
Martin Brown
112
Coping With Love
1997
ISBN 0-590-13446-9
Philip Reeve
127
Coping With Exams and Tests
1998
ISBN 0-590-19683-9
Philip Reeve
128
Coping With 1999 (A Diary)
1998
ISBN 0-590-11296-1
Philip Reeve
128
Coping With The 21st Century
1999
ISBN 0-590-11192-2
Mike Phillips
144
Coping With Christmas
1999
ISBN 0-439-01187-6
Mike Phillips
155
Coping With Cash
2000
ISBN 0-439-01015-2
Mike Phillips
144
Usage examples of "coping with".
As the Serenity Prayer tells us, control may mean coping with a situation by yielding, patiently accepting, or accomodating the situation as well as coping by assertively doing something to change things.
But this was especially painful, for Mousa had been brave and determined in coping with his disability.
For years, especially recently, in modern times, he had relied on humans like Bob to provide a smokescreen for him, concealing him from suspicious eyes and coping with the intricacies of the modern world for him.
Together we watched the young moms coping with the anguish of dinnertime.
And there was the necessity of coping with new professions and new environments, which meant new vocabulary.
Although Michael understood Jake's anger was merely his way of coping with the situation, he couldn't keep the edge of annoyance from his voice.
He could even be coping with the loss by inventing reasons why they might still be alive, which is only delaying the mourning period.
For reasons that will become clear in the pages that follow, successful coping with rapid change will require most of us to adopt a new stance toward the future, a new sensitive awareness of the role it plays in the present.
She gripped the wall coping with both hands and set her right toes between the second and third course of masonry from the ground.
They could not help crushing entire fractal worlds with every step as they crunch-crunched over the ice, looking for the plants now covered in frost, to see how they were coping with the coming cold.
Dennis muttered, sitting on the coping with his face in his hands.
This completed the cycle of therapeutic interest back to coping with external trauma.