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Author : Bruce McCall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780330269490
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (694 download)
Download or read book Bruce McCall's Zany Afternoons written by Bruce McCall and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce McCall
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Marveltown written by Bruce McCall and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Bruce McCall
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061959103
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book 50 Things to Do with a Book written by Bruce McCall and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Bruce McCall
Publisher : Signal
ISBN 13 : 0771057121
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)
Download or read book This Land Was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me) written by Bruce McCall and published by Signal. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Bruce McCall
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Last Dream-0-rama written by Bruce McCall and published by Crown. This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When the postwar economic boom fostered such prosperity that easy credit allowed even hourly workers to plunge themselves hopelessly into debt, a brand-new car became an attainable dream for millions in the 1950s. And soon came dream cars to further stimulate their automotive saliva glands. By mid-decade, every American carmaker was parading its glittering glimpses of four-wheeled futurism before a dazzled public -- flights of styling fancy and functional wonderment blaring 'Headed for your driveway soon!' while mumbling, sotto voce, 'Don't hold us to it.' " So begins Bruce McCall's tongue-in-cheek history of Detroit's dream car era. From the author of the cult classic Zany Afternoons comes perhaps the sharpest, funniest, most original overview of Fifties culture -- and Fifties cars -- yet published. The Last Dream-o-Rama is a surrealistic satire, not just of the dream car phenomenon but of the conformist and materialistic value system that produced it. From the Quizfire 5000 Jackpot to the Nixoneer Squelchchoramic to the Bongo Beatnik Ferlinghetti TurboHipster, McCall's lavish illustrations and the antic text memorably restore the world of America in the Fifties in all its glitzy grandeur.
Author : Lee Eisenberg
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060193119
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Viagra Nation written by Lee Eisenberg and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1998-08-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!
Author : Adam Gopnik
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385669968
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
Download or read book The Steps Across the Water written by Adam Gopnik and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780761125440
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Sit! written by and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sit!", the perfect gift for everyone who thinks that dogs are people too, now begins a new life in paperback with a new name. This fetching collection of 70 portraits is as funny as ever. Full color.
Author : Roz Chast
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620406381
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? written by Roz Chast and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the “crazy closet”-with predictable results-the tools that had served Roz well through her parents' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed. While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies-an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades-the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care. An amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant will show the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller.
Author : Bruce McCall
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 : 9780394735047
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Zany Afternoons written by Bruce McCall and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1982-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce McCall
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book All Meat Looks Like South America written by Bruce McCall and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Bierut
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616890711
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design written by Michael Bierut and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writing—serious or humorous, flattering or biting, but always on the mark. Bierut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today. Covering topics as diverse as Twyla Tharp and ITC Garamond, Bierut's intelligent and accessible texts pull design culture into crisp focus. He touches on classics, like Massimo Vignelli and the cover of The Catcher in the Rye, as well as newcomers, like McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and color-coded terrorism alert levels. Along the way Nabakov's Pale Fire; Eero Saarinen; the paper clip; Celebration, Florida; the planet Saturn; the ClearRx pill bottle; and paper architecture all fall under his pen. His experience as a design practitioner informs his writing and gives it truth. In Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design, designers and nondesigners alike can share and revel in his insights.
Author : Bruce McCall
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679769590
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (695 download)
Download or read book Thin Ice written by Bruce McCall and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His skates were too small. Or they didn't match. Or they were that ultimate humiliation for a boy trying to play hockey--girls' white figure skates. Add to young Bruce McCall's shabby equipment his pencil-thin wrists, weak ankles, and, as he puts it, "a fruit bat's metabolism with a tree sloth's reflexes," and you'll understand why he failed so dismally in the cold, rough world of neighborhood hockey in Toronto. Bruce's catastrophic career as a rink rat epitomizes the youth he recounts in this funny, moving, sometimes disturbing memoir. In fact, Thin Ice examines a boyhood so filled with failure and disappointment that the comedy and insight its author/survivor wrests from it--like his subsequent career as one of America's most admired humorists and illustrators--seem like miracles. Bruce McCall's father, T.C., was an inaccessible tyrant. Bruce's mother, Peg, drank to blunt the effect of her husband's rages and to dodge the duties of taking care of six children. Still, Bruce did know some moments of pleasure as a child, especially in the small town of Simcoe, before T.C. moved his family to the dreary outskirts of Toronto: The Second World War offered its awesome matériel and its heroic men, milk bottles grew top hats of cream, and grapes hung free for the stealing in Mrs. Klein's backyard. But his parents' demons took their toll on Bruce, and the move to Toronto set the stage for academic and social disasters: He flunked out of high school and took dead-end graphic-design jobs, all the while envying the full-color culture and high-octane energy of Canada's muscular neighbor to the south. That envy, combined with Bruce's passion for reading and drawing--one of the few positive bequests from T.C. and Peg McCall--became his refuge and then his salvation. His precocious reverence for The New Yorker magazine led him to invent entire comic worlds of artistic and literary creation. Ultimately, he read, wrote, and drew himself out of pennilessness and despair. Bruce McCall may not have been destined to glide around Madison Square Garden holding the Stanley Cup aloft, but as Thin Ice demonstrates, perseverance and talent can turn crummy ice skates--and even dashed hopes--into dreams come true.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Illio written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Winchester
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
ISBN 13 : 9780836869033
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Civil Aircraft written by Jim Winchester and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes various aircrafts, from enormous planes that carry hundreds of passengers to personal planes.
Author : Michael Lamm
Publisher : Lamm-Morada Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book A Century of Automotive Style written by Michael Lamm and published by Lamm-Morada Publishing Company, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich automotive history will engage car buffs for hours of learning and diversion, for the book differs from most chronicles of the evolution of the horseless carriage by focusing on one particular, and fascinating, aspect: the styling of cars--their 'overall shape, ornamentation and resulting aura.' Resting on the premise that 'styling sells, ' the authors' large-format, heavily illustrated account goes into luscious detail about important designers, influential design trends, and noteworthy (in their aesthetic appeal) car models throughout the entire 100-year history of the automobile. A distinctive addition to technology collections that all public libraries should consider for purchase. - Brad Hooper; 306p - YA: For browsers and reluctant readers, as well as YAs interested in cars. JC-
Author : Shary Flenniken
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1681374854
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Trots and Bonnie written by Shary Flenniken and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Trots and Bonnie is hilarious, poignant, raunchy, gorgeously drawn, and more relevant than ever. Shary Flenniken is an absolute genius." —Roz Chast In the 1970s and 1980s, National Lampoon was home not only to some of the funniest humor writing in America but also to many of its best cartoons. One of the greatest was Trots and Bonnie by Shary Flenniken, a comic strip that followed the adventures and mishaps of the guileless teenager Bonnie and her wisecracking dog, Trots. Bonnie stumbles through the mysteries of adulthood, as Flenniken—one of the few female contributors to National Lampoon—dissects the harsh realities of American life. Dating, sex, politics, and violence are all confronted with fearlessness and outrageous humor, rendered in Flenniken’s timeless, gorgeous artwork. After all these years, they have lost none of their power to shock and amuse. This collection, handpicked by Flenniken and with an introduction by the New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake, is the first book of Trots and Bonnie ever published in America, a long-overdue introduction to some of the most stunning and provocative comics of the twentieth century.
