Author: Kalpanik S.
Publisher: TEI DBA Ctr of Artfcl Imagn
ISBN: 1434890430
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 101
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This is the expanded second edition of the colot interior version of the book. This edition has been published in 2001. Some of the reviews refer to the older edition published in 2008. Inspired by author's stint at Amazon.com. Seattle, a medley of lush green hills surrounded by snow capped mountains and sparking blue waters. Congo.com--an Internet company based in Seattle which has taken the stock markets by storm, and is transforming itself from an online retailer to an eCommerce platform, led by a CEO who leads this transformation but is not afraid to act goofy. In the middle of all this lands a former executive from Silicon Valley. It begins as a story of a technologist leaving behind his beloved Silicon Valley for Seattle. It unfolds into a moving story capturing Seattle's beauty, its interesting people and culture; and the inside scoop on the dot-com world. Technology. Innovation. Humor. Wit. Imagination. They all come together very nicely in Seattle Adventures.
Author: Laura Lahm
Publisher: Colorful Cities Books
ISBN: 9780989897266
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The most creative way to explore Seattle!More than a coloring book, follow Colorful Seattle's map from Pioneer Square to the Space Needle to the Olympic Sculpture Park, with many colorful stops in between. The whimsical illustrations of this Pacific Northwest gem will delight the most adventurous artist. Creative & educational, at home or on the go!Ideal for kids and adults, providing countless hours of exploring.Looking for things to do in Seattle? Colorful Seattle has you covered!Explore the Fremont Troll, Coleman Pool, Green Lake Park or the Burke Gilman Trail. Wander through Kubota Garden or Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Park. Fly a kite at Gas Works Park or kayak in Lake Union. Discover history at the Center for Wooden Boats and the Museum of Pop History. Be amazed by the Seattle Central Library or the super-sized Oxbow Park. Forage for edible delights at the University Farmers Market or Fisherman's Terminal and so much more.There are many fun ways to use Colorful Seattle! Drop a pencil on the map or play "page roulette" to determine where you will explore. Make it an educational challenge to learn about a location or create art for your walls by removing the perforated illustrations.* 28 illustrations "we provide the lines so you can create the art"* One-sided printing on high-quality paper reduces marker and gel pen bleed* Top binding eliminates smudging for both left and right-handed artists* Perforated pages ensure seamless removal allowing illustrations to become instant art pieces* Designed, illustrated and printed 100% in the USA The Colorful Cities "Explore & Color"® series brings vibrant cities alive through playful illustrations, city maps and location descriptions. Designed for children of all ages, the books' combination travel guide and coloring book encourages creative exploration of cultures and places. Coloring that's educational. Other books in the series include: Colorful Tokyo, Colorful Portland, Colorful Chicago and Colorful Havana.From every
Author: Susanna Ryan
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 1632172623
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Instagram sensation Seattle Walk Report uses her distinctive comic style and eagle eye to illustrate the charming and quirky people, places, and things that define Seattle's neighborhoods. Leveraging the growing popularity of Seattle Walk Report on Instagram, this charming book features comic book-style illustrations that celebrate the distinctive and odd people, places, and things that define Seattle's neighborhoods. The book goes deep into the urban jungle, exploring 24 popular Seattle neighborhoods, pulling out history, notable landmarks, and curiosities that make each area so distinctive. Entirely hand-drawn and lettered, Seattle Walk Report will be peppered with fun, slightly interactive elements throughout which make for an engaging armchair read, in addition to a fun way to explore the city's iconic, diverse, hipster, historic, and grand neighborhoods.
Author: Kalpanik S.
Publisher: TEI DBA Ctr of Artfcl Imagn
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 109
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Literacy Pledge: For every copy of this book sold in United States, Canada or Europe, we will donate a textbook to a child in need. Find out more about our pledge at www. world-literacy.info. Please also read Author's statement in the "Author's Biography" section. Behind Amazon's quirky smile logo lurks a cold and calculating giant machine. Author Kalpanik S. reveals his own smile as he tells the somewhat quirky story of his complex, and often hilarious, relationship with Amazon. From the sophisticated wit in his portrayal of the courtship period in "How To Get Hired By Amazon In Ten Days", to the dark humor of the disillusionment period in "The Cold, Calculating Machine", Kalpanik's story is more than just an insider's view of the giant machine known as Amazon.com. It's a modern, universal story of the uneasy relationship between an individual and today's gargantuan corporations. In the end, it is also a story of redemption for creative and freethinking individuals that define America. Acclaim for the book ... not only does the author makes us feel the vitality of the Hi-Tech worlds of California & Seattle but his very emotional experiences as an immigrant, a father and a dislocated worker.I love his leaps of imagination, and the words which hook us in, make us think this is our story. For example, here is what it means to yearn for acceptance: "I looked at Seattle's glistening skyline on one side and its beautiful waterfront on the other and asked it the same questions I had asked San Francisco sixteen years ago: will it accept me? Or will its people treat me as someone different, not one of them?" Overall, a hip, funny and yet very poignant story! .....John Lehman, author of "Everything is Changing" This edition of the book was revised in December 2011 to include author's perspective on the 2011 Amazon Warehouse scandal, where a detailed investigative report on worker treatment at a regional warehouse by a local newspaper caught national media attention. Confessions of a foreign born author I must confess that English is my third language, and even though this book has been edited by several professional native English editors, it is obvious-even to me- that this book is written by a Foreign-born author. Foreign-born or not, I believe I have a talent for storytelling, and I have converted a dull topic-the transformation of Amazon from a retail website to a marketplace-into an interesting and lively story. This is more of a little book than a big one. Being a technologist, I tend to be concise in my writing. The printed version of this edition is about 220 pages. This may be too little for a few readers, too much for others, and hopefully, just right for the some. So, If you are looking for a 1,000-page treatise on Amazon that can be used as an example of perfect grammar in the High school English grammar class, then this book may not be the right book for you. There are several other books on Amazon which are written in perfect English but are perfectly boring. A book about Amazon can be pretty dry, so I have tried to add some humor. In my attempt to make this book funny, a few facts may have been stretched. I quote this passage from 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com, written by Mike Daisey, a fellow Amazon alumnus-turned author: "Some facts were injured in the telling of this story. The truth, however, remains unharmed." That applies to this book as well. To respect the privacy of the people involved in this story, their names have been changed - with one exception. Trust me, there really is a guy named Jeff Bezos who works at Amazon. All in all, I am proud of my work, Enjoy! [Signed] Kalpanik S. Note: Portions of this book have been previously published under titles "Seattle Adventures", "Artificial Imagination" and "Welcome to the USA".
Author: Susanna Ryan
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 1632173751
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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Capturing the same charm and whimsy she brought to Seattle Walk Report, Instagram darling Susanna Ryan takes things a step further, revealing the forgotten history behind the people, places, and things that shaped Seattle. Cartoonist and creator of Seattle Walk Report, Susanna Ryan strolls on with a quirky new illustrated guide celebrating Seattle's historical treasures and outdoor wonders. In Secret Seattle, Ryan explores the weird and wonderful hidden history behind some of the city's most overlooked places, architecture, and infrastructure, from coal chutes in Capitol Hill, to the last remainder of Seattle's original Chinatown in Pioneer Square, to the best places in town to find century-old sidewalks. Discover pocket parks, beautiful boulevards, and great public gardens while learning offbeat facts that will make you see the Emerald City in a whole new way. Perfect for both the local history buff who never leaves a favorite armchair to a walking enthusiast looking for offbeat and off-the-beaten-path scavenger hunts.
Author: John Skewes
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1632170922
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Featuring all-new artwork and several new Seattle landmarks, this limited 10th anniversary edition of the best-selling Larry Gets Lost in Seattle finds Larry, the adorable pup, lost again! Pete and Larry, his adorable pooch, take a ferry to Seattle to visit the Emerald City. After being distracted by a tempting treat, Larry gets lost and tours the city trying to reunite with Pete. Along the way he discovers some of the city’s most fun and interesting landmarks and cultural attractions, including: * Seattle Central Library * Seattle Art Museum * Pike Place Market * Museum of History and Industry * The Olympic Sculpture Park * CenturyLink Field and Safeco Field * The Space Needle * EMP
Author: Allie Brosh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451666187
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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#1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!
Author: Let's Go Inc.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312335649
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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The brand-new Let's Go: Pacific Northwest Adventure Guide is your must-have companion to the great outdoors of Washington, Oregon, and parts of British Columbia and Alberta. With fresh coverage of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, the Puget Sound islands, and Washington's Methow and Yakima Valleys, Let's Go is the best and freshest guide to the Pacific Northwest for travelers and natives alike. Let's Go's forty-five years of practical savvy inform this book's must-have information on safety, car care, wilderness survival, and nature conservation. Up-to-date advice on wilderness leadership certification, organized trips, and extreme sports caters to the most serious adventurers. Whether your tastes turn to hiking the glaciers of Banff National Park or exploring the marble canyons of Oregon Caves National Monument, all you need is adrenaline and Let's Go.
Author: Megan Lindholm
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944145590
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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A gorgeously illustrated 35th anniversary edition of the urban fantasy classic, featuring a new foreword by Megan Lindholm and illustrations by Tommy Arnold. Seattle: a place as magical as the Emerald City. Subtle magic seeps through the cracks in the paving stones of the sprawling metropolis. But only the inhabitants who possess special gifts are open to the city's consciousness; finding portents in the graffiti, reading messages in the rubbish or listening to warnings in the skipping-rope chants of children. Wizard is bound to Seattle and her magic. His gift is the Knowing -- a powerful enchantment allowing him to know the truth of things; to hear the life-stories of ancient mummies locked behind glass cabinets, to receive true fortunes from the carnival machines, to reveal to ordinary people the answers to their troubles and to safeguard the city's equilibrium. The magic has its price; Wizard must never have more than a dollar in his pocket, must remain celibate, and he must feed and protect the pigeons. But a threat to Seattle has begun to emerge in the portents. A malevolent force born of Wizard's forgotten past has returned to prey upon his power and taunt him with images of his obscure history; and he is the only wizard in Seattle who can face the evil and save the city, his friends and himself.
Author: Kalpanik
Publisher: TEI DBA Ctr of Artfcl Imagn
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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