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Author : Geoff Tibballs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Ripley's Believe it Or Not! written by Geoff Tibballs and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert LeRoy Ripley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847946911
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (469 download)
Download or read book Ripley's Simply Shocking! written by Robert LeRoy Ripley and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American cartoonist Robert Leroy Ripley celebrates all that is weird and wonderful in our world today in this book full of the most amazing facts and unusual-but-true tales, illustrated throughout with full-colour photographs.
Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393332128
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Ripley's Game written by Patricia Highsmith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Ripley emerges from retirement to preside over one last deadly game, but can he persuade an innocent man to commit murder?
Author : Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
Publisher : Ripley Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781893951310
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Prepare To Be Shocked written by Ripley's Believe It Or Not! and published by Ripley Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The All New 5th title in this annual series. Total sales are just shy of 3 million copies. The Remarkable Revealed – published last year – was #14 on the NY Times, year end, Advice Bestseller List. The electrifying holographic cover of Ripley's Believe It or Not! Prepare to be Shocked gives a tantalizing taste of the bizarre and amazing facts and pictures to be found throughout the latest book in Ripley's multi-million-selling series. Among the crazy stories featured is the Electric Man who can power light bulbs and fry fish in his bare hands, a jet-powered bar stool, a man with bright blue skin, and cats that glow in the dark! Seventeen chapters--ranging from Epic Endeavors and Fun Festivals to Fantastic Food and Startling Art--cover an ever-widening group of subjects and stories around which the book is based. Intriguing interviews with astounding individuals spotlight their achievements and reveal more about what makes them tick. Informative `Ripley's Research' boxes give the scientific explanation behind some of the most incredible tales in the book, such as why cats are sometimes born with wings, how someone can swallow live snakes, and how snow donuts are actually formed. In addition, miscellaneous lists and other text features are scattered throughout, including a list of competitive eating achievements and a recipe for deep-fried scorpions. And double-page features, entitled `Enter the Vault,' showcase the best of the Ripley archive of black and white photographs of unbelievable people, places, and creatures of the past. Every page will make you gasp with astonishment at the truly unbelievable tales that make up the wonderful world of Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Author : Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1609910400
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Ripley's RBI 08: The Lost Island written by Ripley's Believe It Or Not! and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the RBI—a group of teen agents with special gifts—on a series of action-packed adventures as they travel the world! The RBI travel to the plains of East Africa to investigate strange sightings of unbelievable animals, and find local people terrified of the unnatural animal cries they hear in the night. With DUL agents hot on their trail, the RBI find themselves on one of their most scary and dangerous missions so far as the adventure leads them to the mysterious lost island.
Author : Stephen W. Sears
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547526636
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Landscape Turned Red written by Stephen W. Sears and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best account of the Battle of Antietam” from the award-winning, national bestselling author of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville (The New York Times Book Review). The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation’s history: in this single day, the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. In Landscape Turned Red, the renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries, dispatches, and letters to recreate the vivid drama of Antietam as experienced not only by its leaders but also by its soldiers, both Union and Confederate. Combining brilliant military analysis with narrative history of enormous power, Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on this climactic and bitter struggle. “A modern classic.”—The Chicago Tribune “No other book so vividly depicts that battle, the campaign that preceded it, and the dramatic political events that followed.”—The Washington Post Book World “Authoritative and graceful . . . a first-rate work of history.”—Newsweek
Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393345637
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Slowly, Slowly in the Wind written by Patricia Highsmith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-12-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Highsmith's writing is wicked . . . it puts a spell on you, after which you feel altered, even tainted."—Entertainment Weekly Slowly, Slowly in the Wind brilliantly assembles many of Patricia Highsmith's most nuanced and psychologically suspenseful works. Rarely has an author articulated so well the hypocrisies of the Catholic Church while conveying the delusions of a writer's life and undermining the fantasy of suburban bliss. Each of these twelve pieces, like all great short fiction, is a crystal-clear snapshot of lives both static and full of chaos. In "The Pond" Highsmith explores the unforeseen calamities that can unalterably shatter a single woman's life, while "The Network" finds sinister loneliness and joy in the mundane yet engrossing friendships of a small community of urban dwellers. In this enduring and disturbing collection, Highsmith evokes the gravity and horror of her characters' surroundings with evenhanded prose and a detailed imagination.
Author : Ripley's Entertainment Inc.,
Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 : 0545622603
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Ripley's Special Edition 2014 written by Ripley's Entertainment Inc., and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another year's worth of wild and wacky information from Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Author : American cyclopaedia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The new American cyclopædia, ed. by G. Ripley and C.A. Dana written by American cyclopaedia and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah Parker
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813940907
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Sucking Up written by Deborah Parker and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suck-up. Ass-kisser. Brownnoser. Bootlicker. Lickspittle. Toadeater... Found in every walk of life, both real and imagined, sycophants surround us. But whether we grumble about sycophancy or grudgingly tolerate it as a price of getting along in a complex society, we rarely examine it closely. This book humorously considers that slavish art from the historical past to our current political environment, and particularly through the revealing lens of literature. Some of the grandest examples of yes-men appear in these pages--from Dante’s flatterers and Dickens’s Uriah Heep to Kellyanne Conway, who urged us to "go buy Ivanka’s stuff," and the obsequious soul who apologized to Vice President Cheney for being shot by him.More relevant now than ever, as sucking up becomes the master trope of the Trump era, this choice romp through the spectacular world of bowing and scraping will entertain and enlighten.
Author : Elizabeth Graham
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527553442
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Meanings of Ripley written by Elizabeth Graham and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Ripley of the Alien Quadrilogy has become an iconic female figure in the male dominated genre of science fiction/action/horror since her first appearance in 1979. This collection offers readers varied interpretations of Ripley that are grounded in the social context and theoretical perspectives that were dominant prior to and during the time the films were released. Specifically, the rise of Second Wave Feminism—and the backlash against it—provides a backdrop for this collection. Is Ripley a feminist hero? A patriarchal woman and mother? Does she embody de Beavoir’s “myth of the feminine”? Does she exhibit sexual agency? Does she offer us a glimpse of individual autonomy that moves away from dichotomous gender roles? These are the primary questions explored in this collection. While the focus is clearly on Ripley, the arguments go beyond the confines of the films by examining the relationship between the individual and society in which both are product and producer of the other, and illustrate that social artifacts such as film can provide insights into the lived experiences of our world. The contributors come from a variety of backgrounds including Literature, Cinema Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, Philosophy, Sociology, Theatre History, and reside in Canada and the United States. They represent a range from junior to senior scholars. While science fiction is clearly an interest of all these individuals, it is not the primary area of research for most of them. By bringing voices from multiple disciplines into the discussion about Ripley, this collection offers readers perspectives that deviate from and yet complement the current trend in film criticism and, thus, contributes to opening up discussions about such characters and the genre to a wider audience.
Author : Robert Le Roy Ripley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847945129
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (451 download)
Download or read book Ripley's believe it or not! 2009 written by Robert Le Roy Ripley and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains details of bizarre happenings in the human, material & natural world. It examines all facets of extraordinary human life, from space & the universe to prophecies & coincidences, from birth & growth to the mysterious mind, from accidents to events that simply defy belief.
Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 160991046X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Ripley's Unbelievable Stories For Guys written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ripley's Believe it or Not for guy's who think they know everything! One for the grown-ups, this quirky new Ripley’s book is filled with bizarre and hilarious "Believe It or Not!" stories, trivia and lists— perfect for any fan of the unusual, and the ideal Father’s Day gift. Some of the utterly stupefying stories within include: • Joseph Puyol, professional farter and highest paid entertainer in 19th-century France • the craziest true CIA plots • a divorce settlement that included a kidney • the college student jailed for insulting a horse • Iceland’s penis museum • the gambler who broke Monte Carlo • a man who removed his own appendix The perfect gift for the man in your life. This title will engage its audience with stories, facts and charts that men can relate to. This title takes the unbelievable and strange facts that Ripley's is known for and expands upon these stories to make a fun and entertaining book for men. Did you know that military hot-air balloons and submarines were used in the American Civil War? Did you know that the Japanese Earthquake shortened a day? What about before Madoff? What was the first ponzi scheme? How about the craziest true plots of the CIA? This title will engage an adult male audience with all the unique and fun stories that Ripley's is famous for.
Author : Michiel Rys
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030881741
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present written by Michiel Rys and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present sheds new light on literary representations of precarious labor from 1840 until the present. With contributions by experts in American, British, French, German and Swedish culture, this book examines how literature has shaped the understanding of socio-economic precarity, a concept that is mostly used to describe living and working conditions in our contemporary neoliberal and platform economy. This volume shows that authors tried to develop new poetic tools and literary techniques to translate the experience of social regression and insecurity to readers. While some authors critically engage with normative models of work by zooming in on the physical and affective backlash of being a precarious worker, others even find inspiration in their own situations as writers trying to survive. Furthermore, this volume shows that precarity is not an exclusively contemporary phenomenon and that literature has always been a central medium to (critically) register forms of social insecurity. By retrieving parts of that archive, this volume paves the way to a historically nuanced view on contemporary regimes of precarious work.
Author : Matthew Levay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110842886X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Violent Minds written by Matthew Levay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levay analyzes representations of the criminal in British and American modernism from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s.
Author : Neal Thompson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448184371
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book A Curious Man written by Neal Thompson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most successful entertainment figures of his time, Robert Ripley’s life is the stuff of a classic American fairy tale. Bucktoothed and hampered by shyness, Ripley turned his sense of being an outsider into an appreciation of the weird and wonderful. He sold his first cartoon to LIFE magazine at eighteen, but it was his wildly popular ‘Believe It or Not!’ radio shows that won him international fame, and spurred him on to search the globe’s farthest corners for bizarre facts, human curiosities and shocking phenomena. Ripley delighted in making preposterous declarations that somehow turned out to be true – such as that Charles Lindburgh was only the sixty-seventh man to fly across the Atlantic or that ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ was not the USA’s national anthem. And he demanded respect for those who were labelled ‘eccentrics’ or ‘freaks’ – whether it be E. L. Blystone, who wrote 2,871 alphabet letters on a grain of rice, or the man who could swallow his own nose. By the 1930s, Ripley possessed a wide fortune, a private yacht and a huge mansion stocked with such oddities as shrunken heads and medieval torture devices. His pioneering firsts in print, radio and television tapped into something deep in the American consciousness – a taste for the titillating and exotic, and a fascination with the fastest, biggest, wackiest and weirdest – and ensured a worldwide legacy that continues today. This compelling biography portrays a man who was dedicated to exalting the strange and unusual – but who may have been the most amazing oddity of all.
Author : Richard Brauer
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532024711
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Ripley’S Canyon written by Richard Brauer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ripleys Canyon is the story of a Civil War veteran who travels West with his wife only to have her killed by Indians. He vows to live only for the purpose of extracting revenge. In the dry desert canyon country of what is now northern Utah and southern Idaho, he finds a box canyon he can defend. More important, he discovers a gold mine and prepares to mine it all by himself. Returning from a trip to buy supplies, he discovers several ex-slaves that have been freed by the Civil War and decided to take them to his new home this remarkable canyon. When a wagon train is attacked by Indians, he rescues a woman about to be killed. In the ensuing battle Ripley kills the son of an Indian Chief who swears revenge on the white man who lives in the canyon. When outlaws try to discover the location of his gold mine, Ripley and his new friends are forced to fight for their lives.
