Author: Nick Pollotta
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
ISBN: 9780786901982
Category : Fantasy.
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Teenage dogcatcher Jason Montgomery and his sentient power armor, H.O.B.A.R.T., return to twenty-fourth-century America to destroy their archenemies, the Robot Spiders, in a fantastical adventure that allows readers to control the course of the story. Original.
The 24 Hour War
Author: Nick Pollotta
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
ISBN: 9780786901982
Category : Fantasy.
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Teenage dogcatcher Jason Montgomery and his sentient power armor, H.O.B.A.R.T., return to twenty-fourth-century America to destroy their archenemies, the Robot Spiders, in a fantastical adventure that allows readers to control the course of the story. Original.
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
ISBN: 9780786901982
Category : Fantasy.
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Teenage dogcatcher Jason Montgomery and his sentient power armor, H.O.B.A.R.T., return to twenty-fourth-century America to destroy their archenemies, the Robot Spiders, in a fantastical adventure that allows readers to control the course of the story. Original.
Pearl Harbor Attack
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
Languages : en
Pages : 1646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
Languages : en
Pages : 1646
Book Description
Go Like Hell
Author: Albert J. Baime
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618822194
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
By the early 1960s, the Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Young Henry Ford II, who had taken the reins of his grandfather's company with little business experience to speak of, knew he had to do something to shake things up. Baby boomers were taking to the road in droves, looking for speed not safety, style not comfort. Meanwhile, Enzo Ferrari, whose cars epitomized style, lorded it over the European racing scene. He crafted beautiful sports cars, "science fiction on wheels," but was also called "the Assassin" because so many drivers perished while racing them.Go Like Helltells the remarkable story of how Henry Ford II, with the help of a young visionary named Lee Iacocca and a former racing champion turned engineer, Carroll Shelby, concocted a scheme to reinvent the Ford company. They would enter the high-stakes world of European car racing, where an adventurous few threw safety and sanity to the wind. They would design, build, and race a car that could beat Ferrari at his own game at the most prestigious and brutal race in the world, something no American car had ever done.Go Like Helltransports readers to a risk-filled, glorious time in this brilliant portrait of a rivalry between two industrialists, the cars they built, and the "pilots" who would drive them to victory, or doom.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618822194
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
By the early 1960s, the Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Young Henry Ford II, who had taken the reins of his grandfather's company with little business experience to speak of, knew he had to do something to shake things up. Baby boomers were taking to the road in droves, looking for speed not safety, style not comfort. Meanwhile, Enzo Ferrari, whose cars epitomized style, lorded it over the European racing scene. He crafted beautiful sports cars, "science fiction on wheels," but was also called "the Assassin" because so many drivers perished while racing them.Go Like Helltells the remarkable story of how Henry Ford II, with the help of a young visionary named Lee Iacocca and a former racing champion turned engineer, Carroll Shelby, concocted a scheme to reinvent the Ford company. They would enter the high-stakes world of European car racing, where an adventurous few threw safety and sanity to the wind. They would design, build, and race a car that could beat Ferrari at his own game at the most prestigious and brutal race in the world, something no American car had ever done.Go Like Helltransports readers to a risk-filled, glorious time in this brilliant portrait of a rivalry between two industrialists, the cars they built, and the "pilots" who would drive them to victory, or doom.
That's Not Funny
Author: Matt Sienkiewicz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520402960
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A 2022 Best Comedy Book, Vulture A rousing call for liberals and progressives to pay attention to the emergence of right-wing comedy and the political power of humor. "Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no right-wing Jon Stewart?" These sorts of questions launch a million tweets, a thousand op-eds, and more than a few scholarly analyses. That's Not Funny argues that it is both an intellectual and politically strategic mistake to assume that comedy has a liberal bias. Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx take readers––particularly self-described liberals––on a tour of contemporary conservative comedy and the "right-wing comedy complex." In That's Not Funny, "complex" takes on an important double meaning. On the one hand, liberals have developed a social-psychological complex—it feels difficult, even dangerous, to acknowledge that their political opposition can produce comedy. At the same time, the right has been slowly building up a comedy-industrial complex, utilizing the humorous, irony-laden media strategies of liberals such as Jon Stewart, Samantha Bee, and John Oliver to garner audiences and supporters. Right-wing comedy has been hiding in plain sight, finding its way into mainstream conservative media through figures ranging from Fox News's Greg Gutfeld to libertarian podcasters like Joe Rogan. That's Not Funny taps interviews with conservative comedians and observations of them in action to guide readers through media history, text, and technique. You will find many of these comedians utterly appalling, some surprisingly funny, and others just plain weird. They are all, however, culturally and politically relevant—the American right is attempting to seize spaces of comedy and irony previously held firmly by the left. You might not like this brand of humor, but you can't ignore it.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520402960
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A 2022 Best Comedy Book, Vulture A rousing call for liberals and progressives to pay attention to the emergence of right-wing comedy and the political power of humor. "Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no right-wing Jon Stewart?" These sorts of questions launch a million tweets, a thousand op-eds, and more than a few scholarly analyses. That's Not Funny argues that it is both an intellectual and politically strategic mistake to assume that comedy has a liberal bias. Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx take readers––particularly self-described liberals––on a tour of contemporary conservative comedy and the "right-wing comedy complex." In That's Not Funny, "complex" takes on an important double meaning. On the one hand, liberals have developed a social-psychological complex—it feels difficult, even dangerous, to acknowledge that their political opposition can produce comedy. At the same time, the right has been slowly building up a comedy-industrial complex, utilizing the humorous, irony-laden media strategies of liberals such as Jon Stewart, Samantha Bee, and John Oliver to garner audiences and supporters. Right-wing comedy has been hiding in plain sight, finding its way into mainstream conservative media through figures ranging from Fox News's Greg Gutfeld to libertarian podcasters like Joe Rogan. That's Not Funny taps interviews with conservative comedians and observations of them in action to guide readers through media history, text, and technique. You will find many of these comedians utterly appalling, some surprisingly funny, and others just plain weird. They are all, however, culturally and politically relevant—the American right is attempting to seize spaces of comedy and irony previously held firmly by the left. You might not like this brand of humor, but you can't ignore it.
Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove
Author: Sean M. Maloney
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640123490
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
King of the Cold War crisis film, Dr. Strangelove became a cultural touchstone from the moment of its release in 1964. The duck-and-cover generation saw it as a satire on nuclear issues and Cold War thinking. Subsequent generations, removed from the film's historical moment, came to view it as a quasi-documentary about an unfathomable secret world. Sean M. Maloney uses Dr. Strangelove and other genre classics like Fail Safe and The Bedford Incident to investigate a curious pop cultural contradiction. Nuclear crisis films repeatedly portrayed the failures of the Cold War's deterrent system. Yet the system worked. What does this inconsistency tell us about the genre? What does it tell us about the deterrent system, for that matter? Blending film analysis with Cold War history, Maloney looks at how the celluloid crises stack up against reality--or at least as much of reality as we can reconstruct from these films with confidence. The result is a daring intellectual foray that casts new light on Dr. Strangelove, one of the Cold War era's defining films.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640123490
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
King of the Cold War crisis film, Dr. Strangelove became a cultural touchstone from the moment of its release in 1964. The duck-and-cover generation saw it as a satire on nuclear issues and Cold War thinking. Subsequent generations, removed from the film's historical moment, came to view it as a quasi-documentary about an unfathomable secret world. Sean M. Maloney uses Dr. Strangelove and other genre classics like Fail Safe and The Bedford Incident to investigate a curious pop cultural contradiction. Nuclear crisis films repeatedly portrayed the failures of the Cold War's deterrent system. Yet the system worked. What does this inconsistency tell us about the genre? What does it tell us about the deterrent system, for that matter? Blending film analysis with Cold War history, Maloney looks at how the celluloid crises stack up against reality--or at least as much of reality as we can reconstruct from these films with confidence. The result is a daring intellectual foray that casts new light on Dr. Strangelove, one of the Cold War era's defining films.
Television News and the 24-Hour News Cycle
Author: Kristin Thiel
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1502634929
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
With the creation of the Cable News Network (CNN) in 1980, television news changed forever. Today, television news shapes viewers' opinions, politics, and journalism as a whole. Filled with attention-grabbing photographs, political cartoons, and in-depth sidebars, this book introduces readers to the story of what came before in-the-moment reporting, how the twenty-four-hour news cycle came about, and what instantaneous reporting might mean for the future of journalism.
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1502634929
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
With the creation of the Cable News Network (CNN) in 1980, television news changed forever. Today, television news shapes viewers' opinions, politics, and journalism as a whole. Filled with attention-grabbing photographs, political cartoons, and in-depth sidebars, this book introduces readers to the story of what came before in-the-moment reporting, how the twenty-four-hour news cycle came about, and what instantaneous reporting might mean for the future of journalism.
Bix & Bones
Author: Mark Druck
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469115123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Visit these links: http://www.bixandbones.com/ and http://www.lookpokergame.com/ BIX & BONES - WWII novel of one-of-a-kind bomb group. History of this story, which has now become a newly-completed novel, byMark Druck, retired Major, USAFR, entitled: BIX & BONES Original version of this material, written in 1946, by a young officer just returned from WWII, writing of experiences he had just been through, focusing on the B-25 wild ride, the sort of missions he flew in the 38th Bomb Group, 5th U.S. Army Air Force, against the Japanese. The missions were truly unique, flown in Billy Mitchell bombers, coming in over a target at altitudes UNDER 20 FEET, at 300 to 350 MPH, with parachutes on the bombs to slow their approximately 15-foot drop, thus enabling the bomber to escape the bomb blast. Knowing nothing of structure for a novel, he wrote a sort of my life in combat story. Having completed this work, he came to New York, met a literary agent, Maurice Crane, with MacIntosh & Otis agency, who had been a gunner on a B-17 over Germany. His plane was shot down, he became a prisoner of war. When men in the camp learned he was an agent, they promised Crane to send their novels to him. As a result, he collected dozens of mss. When the early version of this mss came in, over the transom, Crane decided it would be one of the six war stories he would represent. He praised the characterizations and dialogue as most valid. Then came June, 1950. The Korean War. Crane phoned to say War is no longer in fashion. He returned all six of the mss he had collected on WWII. Slow fade to 1978. Having met the Weisers, Olga was told about the war novel. Let George read it, she said. It was submitted on Thursday. Two business days later Monday Olga called to say We sold it. It was published under the title, The Final Mission, as a paperback. Zebra Books was thought to have printed 65,000 copies of the novel. Meanwhile, drastic changes had been made in the basic story and characters. In 1948, he studied playwrighting at the Dramatic Workshop, then a famous theatre school, he was directed to go there by the theatre worlds most famous playwright agent, Harold Freedman (he represented nearly all the then successful playwrights in USA and England of any 10 plays and musicals produced on Broadway and the West End, London during period from late 1920s-1960s, Harold Freedman represented probably six or seven). History of the material in BIX &BONES page 2 During his studies under Irwin Piscator, the famous German director, who ran the theatre school, which became part of the NEW SCHOOL, he dramatized the material in the mss. It became a drama, titled, All-American, and won an award as one of the best Off-Broadway plays of l949. In dramatizing the material and background and characters and dialogue, he created a plot, reorganized the characters to make them three-dimensional, and invented a basic conflict. The basic plot, the new characters, the one-on-one situations that were in that play are now the basis of the current version of the novel, called BIX & BONES: Harold Freedman, who had become his agent by this time (representing Druck on four plays at the time of his sudden death), felt the play could be sold to movies, because of the strong head-to-head conflict between the lead characters, the action scenes, and the dialogue. He had sold many plays to movies, including My Fair Lady, for the biggest price paid for a property up to that time, and including leasing for ten years the film rights of Harvey. He described Bix & Bones as the Journeys End of WWII : *********************************
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469115123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Visit these links: http://www.bixandbones.com/ and http://www.lookpokergame.com/ BIX & BONES - WWII novel of one-of-a-kind bomb group. History of this story, which has now become a newly-completed novel, byMark Druck, retired Major, USAFR, entitled: BIX & BONES Original version of this material, written in 1946, by a young officer just returned from WWII, writing of experiences he had just been through, focusing on the B-25 wild ride, the sort of missions he flew in the 38th Bomb Group, 5th U.S. Army Air Force, against the Japanese. The missions were truly unique, flown in Billy Mitchell bombers, coming in over a target at altitudes UNDER 20 FEET, at 300 to 350 MPH, with parachutes on the bombs to slow their approximately 15-foot drop, thus enabling the bomber to escape the bomb blast. Knowing nothing of structure for a novel, he wrote a sort of my life in combat story. Having completed this work, he came to New York, met a literary agent, Maurice Crane, with MacIntosh & Otis agency, who had been a gunner on a B-17 over Germany. His plane was shot down, he became a prisoner of war. When men in the camp learned he was an agent, they promised Crane to send their novels to him. As a result, he collected dozens of mss. When the early version of this mss came in, over the transom, Crane decided it would be one of the six war stories he would represent. He praised the characterizations and dialogue as most valid. Then came June, 1950. The Korean War. Crane phoned to say War is no longer in fashion. He returned all six of the mss he had collected on WWII. Slow fade to 1978. Having met the Weisers, Olga was told about the war novel. Let George read it, she said. It was submitted on Thursday. Two business days later Monday Olga called to say We sold it. It was published under the title, The Final Mission, as a paperback. Zebra Books was thought to have printed 65,000 copies of the novel. Meanwhile, drastic changes had been made in the basic story and characters. In 1948, he studied playwrighting at the Dramatic Workshop, then a famous theatre school, he was directed to go there by the theatre worlds most famous playwright agent, Harold Freedman (he represented nearly all the then successful playwrights in USA and England of any 10 plays and musicals produced on Broadway and the West End, London during period from late 1920s-1960s, Harold Freedman represented probably six or seven). History of the material in BIX &BONES page 2 During his studies under Irwin Piscator, the famous German director, who ran the theatre school, which became part of the NEW SCHOOL, he dramatized the material in the mss. It became a drama, titled, All-American, and won an award as one of the best Off-Broadway plays of l949. In dramatizing the material and background and characters and dialogue, he created a plot, reorganized the characters to make them three-dimensional, and invented a basic conflict. The basic plot, the new characters, the one-on-one situations that were in that play are now the basis of the current version of the novel, called BIX & BONES: Harold Freedman, who had become his agent by this time (representing Druck on four plays at the time of his sudden death), felt the play could be sold to movies, because of the strong head-to-head conflict between the lead characters, the action scenes, and the dialogue. He had sold many plays to movies, including My Fair Lady, for the biggest price paid for a property up to that time, and including leasing for ten years the film rights of Harvey. He described Bix & Bones as the Journeys End of WWII : *********************************
Conferences
Author: James Brown Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
National War Agencies Appropriation Bill for 1945
Author: United States. Congress. House. Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1870
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1870
Book Description
Hearings on Military Posture and H.R. 1872 (H.R. 4040), Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1980, and H.R. 2575 (S. 429), Department of Defense Supplemental Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1979 Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military law
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military law
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description