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Author: Peter Ashley Publisher: ISBN: 9780711233584 Category : Follies (Architecture) Languages : en Pages : 124
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Eighteenth-century eye-catchers, nineteenth-century ego boosters, twentieth- century communicators, towers continually rise up into our collective consciousness. They are the landmarks of our journeys, the map pins of our personal geographies; always looked-out for, always in the corner of the eye. Preposterous Erections brings together sixty uniquely fascinating towers from all corners of England. From the parkland Brizlee Tower in Northumberland to the coastal Stepper Point in Cornwall, Peter Ashley tells us their stories through his own very individual photographs and his witty and irreverent commentary. Although there is an obvious core of eighteenth and nineteenth-century landowner's eccentricities, the more recent past is not forgotten, including the instantly recognisable Post Office tower in London's Fitzrovia and the more retiring Lewis's department store art deco tower in Leicester. Monument or observatory, watch tower or water tower, these are sixty of the very best. Preposterous Erections will arouse the interest of even the most casual observer.
Author: Peter Ashley Publisher: ISBN: 9780711233584 Category : Follies (Architecture) Languages : en Pages : 124
Book Description
Eighteenth-century eye-catchers, nineteenth-century ego boosters, twentieth- century communicators, towers continually rise up into our collective consciousness. They are the landmarks of our journeys, the map pins of our personal geographies; always looked-out for, always in the corner of the eye. Preposterous Erections brings together sixty uniquely fascinating towers from all corners of England. From the parkland Brizlee Tower in Northumberland to the coastal Stepper Point in Cornwall, Peter Ashley tells us their stories through his own very individual photographs and his witty and irreverent commentary. Although there is an obvious core of eighteenth and nineteenth-century landowner's eccentricities, the more recent past is not forgotten, including the instantly recognisable Post Office tower in London's Fitzrovia and the more retiring Lewis's department store art deco tower in Leicester. Monument or observatory, watch tower or water tower, these are sixty of the very best. Preposterous Erections will arouse the interest of even the most casual observer.
Author: Lewis Meyer Publisher: ISBN: Category : American literature Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
A biography of the author's father, Max Meyer, from 1906 when he settled in the Oklahoma Territory where "everything he touched turned to something else."
Author: Tracy Gunaratnam Publisher: Lerner Publications ™ ISBN: 1541567951 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 35
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Disaster! King Lion has lost his voice and cannot read the animals their bedtime story. Luckily, Preposterous Rhinoceros wants to give it a try . . . but how exactly do you read a book? Rhinoceros and his animal friends help young children learn to read with colorful illustrations and leveled text.
Author: Tracy Scott McMillin Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252025389 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
He examines the ways in which Emerson's texts have been read in the United States, the myriad methods by which those texts have been pillaged, picked over, and repackaged - in a word, consumed - by biographers, political apologists, self-help proponents, entrepreneurs, and academicians alike.".
Author: Chad Woody Publisher: Chad Woody ISBN: Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
Strange and laughable adventures for all ages. A pirate crew is hijacked by a haunted bowling alley. A robot disastrously attends Mardi Gras. Armed only with honesty, a trout saves lives on the Mississippi. The Easter Bunny gets worn out. George Washington eats a breakfast fit for champions. A cyclops outwits a sinister sheep-eating monster. A dog bites a vacuum cleaner hose. Bigfoot gets a dog that lays eggs. A bear gets hungry enough to eat a vampire, but eats a car battery instead. A relative of Humpty Dumpty armors up for the end of the world. Nothing about zombies or vampires. Practically zero romance.
Author: Robert Ehrlich Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 069122840X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
Placebo cures. Global warming. Extraterrestrial life. Psychokinesis. In a time when scientific claims can sound as strange as science fiction--and can have a profound effect on individual life or public policy--assessing the merits of a far-out, supposedly scientific idea can be as difficult as it is urgent. Into the breach between helpless gullibility and unyielding skepticism steps physicist Robert Ehrlich, with an indispensable guide to making sense of "scientific" claims. A series of case studies of some of the most controversial (and for the judging public, deeply vexing) topics in the natural and social sciences, Ehrlich's book serves as a primer for evaluating the evidence for the sort of strange-sounding ideas that can shape our lives. A much-anticipated follow-up to his popular Nine Crazy Ideas in Science, this book takes up issues close to readers' everyday reality--issues such as global warming, the dangers of cholesterol, and the effectiveness of placebos--as well as questions that resonate through (and beyond) civic life: Is intelligent design a scientific alternative to evolution? Is homosexuality primarily innate? Are people getting smarter or dumber? In each case, Ehrlich shows readers how to use the tools of science to judge the accuracy of strange ideas and the trustworthiness of ubiquitous "experts." As entertaining as it is instructive, his book will make the work of living wisely a bit easier and more reliable for scientists and nonscientists alike.
Author: Alexander Key Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497652596 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 100
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After years in captivity, a brilliant otter escapes into the wild Growing up in the high country, Swimmer bathed in clean water and dined on fresh crawfish. Then the trapper came, killing Swimmer’s mother and imprisoning him and his sister, who did not survive. After years of being poked and prodded by the Professor, he has had enough. He slips out of the townhouse and into the park across the street but is forced to return home when the city water proves too filthy to swim in. Unable to proceed on his own, he does something he vowed never to do: He asks the caretaker, Clarence, for help. Convinced that Swimmer would die in the wild, Clarence refuses to help the otter break free. And so, when the Professor is on a trip to Nashville for a lecture, Swimmer takes his chance, escaping back into the high country. It’s a wild world out there, and this clever otter intends to conquer it all.
Author: Dav Pilkey Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 1338615165 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 170
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George and Harold's time-traveling Purple Potty lands them in a crazy place in the eighth book in this #1 New York Times bestselling series by Dav Pilkey, the author and illustrator of Dog Man! The teachers are nice, the cafeteria serves delicious food, and the school principal, Mr. Krupp, thinks George and Harold are hilarious. Something is very, very wrong -- and it gets even wronger when the boys' pet pterodactyl, Crackers, and Sulu the Bionic Hamster are captured by George and Harold's evil-twin look-alikes. Now George and Harold must face their greatest foes yet: THEMSELVES! Can they handle this mess on their own, or will they need Captain Underpants to swoop in and save the day?
Author: Gloria Fligg Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1525591045 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 51
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Mr. Rhinoceros, the friendly florist, loves his flower shop. He enjoys planting seeds and growing beautiful flowers. Even more, Mr. Rhinoceros loves his customers and friends. But one day, he hears about some big and terrible weeds that are beginning to grow all over town, forcing everyone to stay inside for a very long time! Mr. Rhinoceros misses his flower shop and friends very much, but he finds a way to help those he cares about during this strange and unusual time. Mr. Rhinoceros learns that when things are hard, sometimes the best way to help yourself is to help those around you.
Author: Peter Ashley
Author: Peter Ashley
Author: Lewis Meyer
Author: Tracy Gunaratnam
Author: Tracy Scott McMillin
Author: Chad Woody
Author: Josefa Heifetz
Author: Robert Ehrlich
Author: Alexander Key
Author: Dav Pilkey
Author: Gloria Fligg