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Author: Steven Johnson Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 1509837299 Category : Amusements Languages : en Pages : 326
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"Everyone knows the old saying "necessity is the mother of invention," but if you do a paternity test on many of the modern world's most important ideas or institutions, you will find, invariably, that leisure and play were involved in the conception as well." Most history books don't concern themselves with delight. History is the serious business of war, treaties, governments and monarchs. This is a different kind of history book. Steven Johnson argues that if you want to understand how we got to now, you have to understand pleasure and play. A staggering amount of the landscape of modern life is populated by environments and technology designed to entertain and delight us. Here history of popular entertainment, arguing that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. Throughout history, he locates the cutting edge of innovation wherever people are working the hardest to keep themselves and others amused.He introduces us to the colorful innovators of leisure: the explorers, proprietors, showmen, and artists who changed the trajectory of history with their luxurious wares, exotic meals, taverns, gambling tables, and magic shows.
Author: Charles Portis Publisher: Abrams ISBN: 1590206509 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
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The #1 New York Times bestselling classic frontier adventure novel that inspired two award-winning films! Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s foremost writers. True Grit, his most famous novel, was first published in 1968, and became the basis for two movies, the 1969 classic starring John Wayne and, in 2010, a new version starring Academy Award® winner Jeff Bridges and written and directed by the Coen brothers. True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen when the coward Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father’s blood. With one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the killer into Indian Territory. True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true status, this is an American classic through and through.
Author: Barbara O'Connor Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR) ISBN: 0374310602 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 289
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The new novel from the beloved author of "Wish." When her mother uproots them, 10-year-old Mavis is determined to find a best friend in Landry, Alabama, where the summer also holds the promise of friendship and change for a sad man, a stray dog, and a timid girl.
Author: Tom Lange Publisher: ISBN: 9780692973615 Category : Drug dealers Languages : en Pages : 294
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A true story of one of the most gruesome mass murders in Los Angeles history. This incredible twenty-year saga includes brutal murder, vicious robbery, corruption at the highest levels of the judiciary and law enforcement, bought off witnesses and jury tampering, intimidation, bribery, organized crime, as well as drug dealing and all it's violent repercussions. All of these barriers seem insurmountable to the cops who are assigned to pick their way through this "garden of evil." Several other high profile cases of the period are high lighted.
Author: Larry Bennett Publisher: Ru-LAN ISBN: 9781940242736 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 56
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Evil enchantress Su-ling placed a curse on the kingdom that, upon her demise, would trigger the unleashing of a swarm of highly destructive, magically enhanced stink bugs on their crops, threatening their food supply and very survival. When the curse is enacted, Su-ling's good sister Ya-Mei, seeing the desperate situation, grants Ru-lan power over insects, a power helps the young prince save the kingdom from starvation.
Author: Larry W Jones Publisher: ISBN: 9781667142838 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Alice In Wonderland is an 1865 novel by English author Lewis Carroll. It tells of a young girl named Alice, who falls through a rabbit hole into a subterranean fantasy world populated by peculiar creatures. It is considered to be one of the best examples of lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. This 110 book arrangement by Larry W Jones is fully illustrated and enjoyable for all ages.
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