Author: Bruce McCall
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Marveltown's adults are outstanding inventors, but when their best engineers create giant but stupid robots that threaten the town, it is the children's outrageous creations that save the day.
Marveltown
Author: Bruce McCall
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Marveltown's adults are outstanding inventors, but when their best engineers create giant but stupid robots that threaten the town, it is the children's outrageous creations that save the day.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Marveltown's adults are outstanding inventors, but when their best engineers create giant but stupid robots that threaten the town, it is the children's outrageous creations that save the day.
Beating Captain Najork
Author: Todd R. Nelson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365944433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365944433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
Author: New York (State). Court of Appeals.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Volume contains: 209 NY 531 (Town of Pelham v. Shinn)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Volume contains: 209 NY 531 (Town of Pelham v. Shinn)
50 Things to Do with a Book
Author: Bruce McCall
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061959103
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
In a world where reading is reportedly dead, renowned humorist, illustrator, and New Yorker contributor Bruce McCall offers 50 inventive, outlandish, and wickedly entertaining things to do with all those excess books in 50 Things to Do with a Book. From starting a band, building a stairway to paradise, and saving your town from a flood to improving your marriage, entertaining guests, or killing a mockingbird, the options presented in 50 Things to Do with a Book are brilliant, visionary, ironic, and absurd.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061959103
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
In a world where reading is reportedly dead, renowned humorist, illustrator, and New Yorker contributor Bruce McCall offers 50 inventive, outlandish, and wickedly entertaining things to do with all those excess books in 50 Things to Do with a Book. From starting a band, building a stairway to paradise, and saving your town from a flood to improving your marriage, entertaining guests, or killing a mockingbird, the options presented in 50 Things to Do with a Book are brilliant, visionary, ironic, and absurd.
The Yugo
Author: Jason Vuic
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429945397
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it "the worst car of the millennium." And for most Americans that's where the story begins and ends. Hardly. The short, unhappy life of the car, the men who built it, the men who imported it, and the decade that embraced and discarded it is rollicking and astounding, and one of the greatest untold business-cum-morality tales of the 1980s. Mix one rabid entrepreneur, several thousand "good" communists, a willing U.S. State Department, the shortsighted Detroit auto industry, and improvident bankers, shake vigorously, and you've got The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History. Brilliantly re-creating the amazing confluence of events that produced the Yugo, Yugoslav expert Jason Vuic uproariously tells the story of the car that became an international joke: The American CEO who happens upon a Yugo right when his company needs to find a new import or go under. A State Department eager to aid Yugoslavia's nonaligned communist government. Zastava Automobiles, which overhauls its factory to produce an American-ready Yugo in six months. And a hole left by Detroit in the cheap subcompact market that creates a race to the bottom that leaves the Yugo . . . at the bottom.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429945397
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it "the worst car of the millennium." And for most Americans that's where the story begins and ends. Hardly. The short, unhappy life of the car, the men who built it, the men who imported it, and the decade that embraced and discarded it is rollicking and astounding, and one of the greatest untold business-cum-morality tales of the 1980s. Mix one rabid entrepreneur, several thousand "good" communists, a willing U.S. State Department, the shortsighted Detroit auto industry, and improvident bankers, shake vigorously, and you've got The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History. Brilliantly re-creating the amazing confluence of events that produced the Yugo, Yugoslav expert Jason Vuic uproariously tells the story of the car that became an international joke: The American CEO who happens upon a Yugo right when his company needs to find a new import or go under. A State Department eager to aid Yugoslavia's nonaligned communist government. Zastava Automobiles, which overhauls its factory to produce an American-ready Yugo in six months. And a hole left by Detroit in the cheap subcompact market that creates a race to the bottom that leaves the Yugo . . . at the bottom.
The Steps Across the Water
Author: Adam Gopnik
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
ISBN: 0385669968
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Young Rose discovers magical glass steps in New York's Central Park that lead to the fantastic city of U Nork, whose residents have been awaiting the arrival of the only person who can save them.
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
ISBN: 0385669968
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Young Rose discovers magical glass steps in New York's Central Park that lead to the fantastic city of U Nork, whose residents have been awaiting the arrival of the only person who can save them.
Stations
Author: Michael Flanagan
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Most compellingly, Stations is about the journey we each take along the tracks of memory where time and place intersect - the lost world of home.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Most compellingly, Stations is about the journey we each take along the tracks of memory where time and place intersect - the lost world of home.
Marveltown Forever
This Land Was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me)
Author: Bruce McCall
Publisher: Signal
ISBN: 0771057121
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
When it comes to the lifestyles of American Express Black Card holders, you'd never know we're in a recession. This Land Was Made For You and Me (But Mostly Me) is a hilarious catalog of the absurdly extravagant lifestyles, impossibly glamorous escapes, and pet projects of North America's one percenters. From fiberglass Baobab tree houses in the foothills of the Rockies with machine-gun ports at every level, to a four-star open-air restaurant precariously balanced atop the leafy rainforests of the Amazon basin, longtime friends and mutual fans McCall and Letterman have created an Architectural Digest-style satire of the (obscenely) rich and famous. Featuring beautiful hand-painted illustrations in McCall's inimitable style and the brilliantly caustic wit of both authors, This Land takes you on a dizzying tour of vacation homes and resorts at once utterly ridiculous and eerily plausible.
Publisher: Signal
ISBN: 0771057121
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
When it comes to the lifestyles of American Express Black Card holders, you'd never know we're in a recession. This Land Was Made For You and Me (But Mostly Me) is a hilarious catalog of the absurdly extravagant lifestyles, impossibly glamorous escapes, and pet projects of North America's one percenters. From fiberglass Baobab tree houses in the foothills of the Rockies with machine-gun ports at every level, to a four-star open-air restaurant precariously balanced atop the leafy rainforests of the Amazon basin, longtime friends and mutual fans McCall and Letterman have created an Architectural Digest-style satire of the (obscenely) rich and famous. Featuring beautiful hand-painted illustrations in McCall's inimitable style and the brilliantly caustic wit of both authors, This Land takes you on a dizzying tour of vacation homes and resorts at once utterly ridiculous and eerily plausible.
Viagra Nation
Author: Lee Eisenberg
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060193119
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Attention all Viagrans, friends of Viagrans, and Viagrans to-be... With this book, Bruce McCall and Lee Eisenberg plant the flag on a brave new land called Viagra Nation, the blissful and outrageous state of mind where everybody is beautiful, where old-age dysfunction is a thing of the past, and where sexual fears, worries, and anxieties are declared null and void. Using drawings, diagrams, charts, graphs, postcards, stamps and just about anything else they can get their hands on, McCall and Eisenberg bring to life an earthly paradise made possible by the most phenomenal, notorious, and talked-about tablet since Moses. Viagra Nation is the uproarious and definitive guidebook to this glorious utopia, where men and woman are suddenly able to enjoy active, athletic sex lives long after they've lost day-to-day bladder control. So whether your already an upstanding citizen of Viagra Nation, or just thinking about the day you'll set sail, you're bound to get a rise out of this book. But in the unlikely event you don't, see your doctor. Includes: special Viagra aptitude test a Kama Sutra for Seniors sneak preview of Viagra fashions your own Sexual Security card exclusive Viagra Horoscope the Viagra Model Bedroom of Tomorrow plus commemorative stamps, postcards, charts, graphs, sexual aids, anatomical diagrams, and more!
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060193119
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Attention all Viagrans, friends of Viagrans, and Viagrans to-be... With this book, Bruce McCall and Lee Eisenberg plant the flag on a brave new land called Viagra Nation, the blissful and outrageous state of mind where everybody is beautiful, where old-age dysfunction is a thing of the past, and where sexual fears, worries, and anxieties are declared null and void. Using drawings, diagrams, charts, graphs, postcards, stamps and just about anything else they can get their hands on, McCall and Eisenberg bring to life an earthly paradise made possible by the most phenomenal, notorious, and talked-about tablet since Moses. Viagra Nation is the uproarious and definitive guidebook to this glorious utopia, where men and woman are suddenly able to enjoy active, athletic sex lives long after they've lost day-to-day bladder control. So whether your already an upstanding citizen of Viagra Nation, or just thinking about the day you'll set sail, you're bound to get a rise out of this book. But in the unlikely event you don't, see your doctor. Includes: special Viagra aptitude test a Kama Sutra for Seniors sneak preview of Viagra fashions your own Sexual Security card exclusive Viagra Horoscope the Viagra Model Bedroom of Tomorrow plus commemorative stamps, postcards, charts, graphs, sexual aids, anatomical diagrams, and more!