Author: Laurence Schorsch
Publisher: Checkerboard Press
ISBN: 9781562883539
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Disagreeable and untidy Mr. Boffin, a life-long cat-hater, is adopted by a particularly persistent cat who seems to be immune to all efforts to get rid of him
Author: Francis Spufford
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571266444
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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A brilliant, beautiful account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers. The book contains chapters on the Beagle II, Elite - the 80s computer game, the Blue Streak missile, Concorde, mobile phone technology and the Human Genome Project, among others. Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, 'Backroom Boys' tells the bittersweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition and got back something else. Sad, inspiring, funny and ultimately triumphant, it follows the technologists whose work kept Concorde flying, created the computer game, conquered the mobile-phone business, saved the human genome for the human race - and who now are sending the Beagle 2 probe to burrow in the cinnamon sands of Mars. 'Backroom Boys' is a vivid love-letter to quiet men in pullovers, to those whose imaginings take shape not in words but in mild steel and carbon fibre and lines of code. Above all, it is a celebration of big dreams achieved with slender means.
Author: L.G. Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Robert Hutton
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson
ISBN: 9781909653436
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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You may not recognise the phrase, but if you have ever picked up a paper you'll have come across 'journalese'. Essentially, it covers words and phrases that are only found in newspapers whether tabloid or broadsheet. Without them, how would our intrepid journalists be able to describe a world in which late-night revellers go on booze-fuelled rampages, where tots in peril are saved by have-a-go heroes, and where troubled stars lash out in foul-mouthed tirades? When Rob Hutton began collecting examples of journalese online, he provoked a 'Twitter storm', and was 'left reeling' by the 'scores' of examples that 'flooded in'. He realized that phrases which started as shorthand to help readers have become a dialect which is often meaningless or vacuous to non-journalese speakers. In a courageous attempt both to wean journalists off their journalese habit, and provide elucidation for the rest of us, Romps, Tots and Boffins will catalogue the highs and lows of this strange language, celebrating the best examples ('test-tube baby', 'mad cow disease'), marvelling at the quirky ('boffins', 'frogmen') and condemning the worst ('rant', 'snub', 'sirs'). It will be a 'must-read' 'page-turner' that may 'cause a stir', 'fuel controversy', or even 'spark' 'tough new rules' in newsrooms.
Author: David Orme
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781841676135
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Boffin Boy and Wu Pee must fight the scaly Snurgeon space invaders and stop them from stealing all of the Earth's water!
Author: Richard Koch
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1857884868
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Helps the reader to succeed personally as well as professionally, to make a good life as well as a living.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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InfoWorld is targeted to Senior IT professionals. Content is segmented into Channels and Topic Centers. InfoWorld also celebrates people, companies, and projects.
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
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Category : Deception
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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