Author: Dave Leys
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922134936
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Leo McGuffin has the bestjob in the world. He worksfor the Institute of FantasticalInventions making people's fantasies come true. Wantto float around the house like a bubble and pop atmidnight No problem. Have you secretly alwayswanted to be an astronaut but were too short, tooround or had poor eyesight Never fear, the IFI will makeit happen. And though Leo is a talented scientist, his people skills leave a lot to be desired:witness his relationship with colleague, Dr Andrea Allsop.When boy wonder Edward joins up with Leo, they help boring Roger Mumble become aninternational man of mystery. Then the pair uncover a dastardly plan to steal and sell theInstitute's array of magnificent inventions, threatening the very existence of the organisationLeo loves. Can Leo, Edward, Dr Andrea Allsop and the mysterious Roger Mumble outwit thespies and save the Institute from ruin
The Institute of Fantastical Inventions
Author: Dave Leys
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922134936
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Leo McGuffin has the bestjob in the world. He worksfor the Institute of FantasticalInventions making people's fantasies come true. Wantto float around the house like a bubble and pop atmidnight No problem. Have you secretly alwayswanted to be an astronaut but were too short, tooround or had poor eyesight Never fear, the IFI will makeit happen. And though Leo is a talented scientist, his people skills leave a lot to be desired:witness his relationship with colleague, Dr Andrea Allsop.When boy wonder Edward joins up with Leo, they help boring Roger Mumble become aninternational man of mystery. Then the pair uncover a dastardly plan to steal and sell theInstitute's array of magnificent inventions, threatening the very existence of the organisationLeo loves. Can Leo, Edward, Dr Andrea Allsop and the mysterious Roger Mumble outwit thespies and save the Institute from ruin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922134936
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Leo McGuffin has the bestjob in the world. He worksfor the Institute of FantasticalInventions making people's fantasies come true. Wantto float around the house like a bubble and pop atmidnight No problem. Have you secretly alwayswanted to be an astronaut but were too short, tooround or had poor eyesight Never fear, the IFI will makeit happen. And though Leo is a talented scientist, his people skills leave a lot to be desired:witness his relationship with colleague, Dr Andrea Allsop.When boy wonder Edward joins up with Leo, they help boring Roger Mumble become aninternational man of mystery. Then the pair uncover a dastardly plan to steal and sell theInstitute's array of magnificent inventions, threatening the very existence of the organisationLeo loves. Can Leo, Edward, Dr Andrea Allsop and the mysterious Roger Mumble outwit thespies and save the Institute from ruin
The Jules Verne Sci-Fi Omnibus - Extraordinary Tales of Fantastical Adventures, Scientific Wonders & Incredibly Prophetic Inventions (Illustrated)
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2183
Book Description
Jules Verne's 'The Jules Verne Sci-Fi Omnibus' is a collection of extraordinary tales that blend fantastical adventures, scientific wonders, and incredibly prophetic inventions. Verne's literary style is characterized by meticulous attention to scientific detail, vivid descriptions of exotic locales, and a forward-thinking imagination that was far ahead of its time. Each story within the omnibus presents readers with a thrilling journey through uncharted territories, both on Earth and beyond, challenging the boundaries of what was believed possible at the time of publication. The inclusion of illustrations enhances the reader's experience, bringing Verne's visionary worlds to life in captivating detail. Jules Verne, often referred to as the 'Father of Science Fiction', drew inspiration from the technological advancements and exploration of the 19th century. His background in law and passion for travel informed his narratives, as he sought to educate and entertain readers with tales that sparked the imagination and encouraged curiosity about the world around them. Verne's ability to predict future inventions, such as submarines and space travel, continues to astonish readers to this day. I highly recommend 'The Jules Verne Sci-Fi Omnibus' to those who are fascinated by the intersection of science and adventure in literature. Verne's timeless stories offer a glimpse into a world where the impossible becomes possible, inviting readers to explore the depths of the unknown and embrace the wonders of human ingenuity.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2183
Book Description
Jules Verne's 'The Jules Verne Sci-Fi Omnibus' is a collection of extraordinary tales that blend fantastical adventures, scientific wonders, and incredibly prophetic inventions. Verne's literary style is characterized by meticulous attention to scientific detail, vivid descriptions of exotic locales, and a forward-thinking imagination that was far ahead of its time. Each story within the omnibus presents readers with a thrilling journey through uncharted territories, both on Earth and beyond, challenging the boundaries of what was believed possible at the time of publication. The inclusion of illustrations enhances the reader's experience, bringing Verne's visionary worlds to life in captivating detail. Jules Verne, often referred to as the 'Father of Science Fiction', drew inspiration from the technological advancements and exploration of the 19th century. His background in law and passion for travel informed his narratives, as he sought to educate and entertain readers with tales that sparked the imagination and encouraged curiosity about the world around them. Verne's ability to predict future inventions, such as submarines and space travel, continues to astonish readers to this day. I highly recommend 'The Jules Verne Sci-Fi Omnibus' to those who are fascinated by the intersection of science and adventure in literature. Verne's timeless stories offer a glimpse into a world where the impossible becomes possible, inviting readers to explore the depths of the unknown and embrace the wonders of human ingenuity.
Institute of Fantastical Inventions II
Author: Dave Leys
Publisher: New Holland Publishers
ISBN: 9781760791346
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Leo McGuffin had the best job in the world. As Chief Technical Officer of the Institute of Fantastical inventions (IFI), he had one central mission - to take the wishes, the dreams, the fantasies of ordinary people and to make them come true. Leo's latest clients were the Simpson Family. Their wish was simple - to create a harmonious family. While Leo and his boy genius assistant Edward are researching ways to help the Simpson family, pint sized Isabella Santo is hired to monitor the performance of the scientists, and the IFI is thrown into chaos.Can Leo and Edward save the IFI from robots? Will Edward find a way to get Isabella to notice him? And will Leo ever find the words to make things right with his favorite colleague, Dr Andrea Allsop?
Publisher: New Holland Publishers
ISBN: 9781760791346
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Leo McGuffin had the best job in the world. As Chief Technical Officer of the Institute of Fantastical inventions (IFI), he had one central mission - to take the wishes, the dreams, the fantasies of ordinary people and to make them come true. Leo's latest clients were the Simpson Family. Their wish was simple - to create a harmonious family. While Leo and his boy genius assistant Edward are researching ways to help the Simpson family, pint sized Isabella Santo is hired to monitor the performance of the scientists, and the IFI is thrown into chaos.Can Leo and Edward save the IFI from robots? Will Edward find a way to get Isabella to notice him? And will Leo ever find the words to make things right with his favorite colleague, Dr Andrea Allsop?
Calder: The Conquest of Space
Author: Jed Perl
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0451494121
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
The concluding volume to the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved twentieth-century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--is a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The second and final volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and his wife, Louisa, opened their home to a stream of artists and writers in exile from Europe. In the postwar decades, they divided their time between the United States and France, as Calder made his first monumental public sculptures and received blockbuster commissions that included Expo '67 in Montreal and the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Jed Perl makes clear how Calder's radical sculptural imagination shaped the minimalist and kinetic art movements that emerged in the 1960s. And we see, as well, that through everything--their ever-expanding friendships with artists and writers of all stripes; working to end the war in Vietnam; hosting riotous dance parties at their Connecticut home; seeing the "mobile," Calder's essential artistic invention, find its way into Webster's dictionary--Calder and Louisa remained the risk-taking, singularly bohemian couple they had been since first meeting at the end of the Roaring Twenties. The biography ends with Calder's death in 1976 at the age of seventy-eight--only weeks after an encyclopedic retrospective of his work opened at the Whitney Museum in New York--but leaves us with a new, clearer understanding of his legacy, both as an artist and a man.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0451494121
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
The concluding volume to the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved twentieth-century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--is a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The second and final volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and his wife, Louisa, opened their home to a stream of artists and writers in exile from Europe. In the postwar decades, they divided their time between the United States and France, as Calder made his first monumental public sculptures and received blockbuster commissions that included Expo '67 in Montreal and the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Jed Perl makes clear how Calder's radical sculptural imagination shaped the minimalist and kinetic art movements that emerged in the 1960s. And we see, as well, that through everything--their ever-expanding friendships with artists and writers of all stripes; working to end the war in Vietnam; hosting riotous dance parties at their Connecticut home; seeing the "mobile," Calder's essential artistic invention, find its way into Webster's dictionary--Calder and Louisa remained the risk-taking, singularly bohemian couple they had been since first meeting at the end of the Roaring Twenties. The biography ends with Calder's death in 1976 at the age of seventy-eight--only weeks after an encyclopedic retrospective of his work opened at the Whitney Museum in New York--but leaves us with a new, clearer understanding of his legacy, both as an artist and a man.
Auto Motor Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 1560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 1560
Book Description
Unorthodox Ways to Think the City
Author: Teresa Stoppani
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351341103
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book argues that architecture and the city and their processes can be better understood by drawing categories from disciplines that exceed the architectural and urban cultural context. It performs an open intellectual reading that traverses architecture and architectural theory, but also art theory and history, cartography, philosophy, literature and cultural studies, to unfold a series of ‘figures’ that are ambiguously placed between the representation and the construction of space in architecture and the city. The paradigm and philosophy, the island and the city, the map and representation, the model and making and the questioning of form performed by dust, are explored beyond their definition, as processes that differently make space between architecture and the city and are proposed as unorthodox analytic techniques to decipher contemporary spatial complexity. The book analyses how these ‘figures’ have been employed at different times and in different creative disciplines, beyond architecture and in relation to changing notions of space, and traces the role that they have played in the shift towards the dynamic that has taken place in contemporary theory and design research. What emerges is the idea of an ‘architecture of the city’ that is not only physical but is largely defined by the way in which its physical spaces are regulated, lived and perceived, but also imagined and projected.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351341103
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book argues that architecture and the city and their processes can be better understood by drawing categories from disciplines that exceed the architectural and urban cultural context. It performs an open intellectual reading that traverses architecture and architectural theory, but also art theory and history, cartography, philosophy, literature and cultural studies, to unfold a series of ‘figures’ that are ambiguously placed between the representation and the construction of space in architecture and the city. The paradigm and philosophy, the island and the city, the map and representation, the model and making and the questioning of form performed by dust, are explored beyond their definition, as processes that differently make space between architecture and the city and are proposed as unorthodox analytic techniques to decipher contemporary spatial complexity. The book analyses how these ‘figures’ have been employed at different times and in different creative disciplines, beyond architecture and in relation to changing notions of space, and traces the role that they have played in the shift towards the dynamic that has taken place in contemporary theory and design research. What emerges is the idea of an ‘architecture of the city’ that is not only physical but is largely defined by the way in which its physical spaces are regulated, lived and perceived, but also imagined and projected.
Physique And Character
Author: E. Kretschmer
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447495411
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447495411
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Tunes into TV
Author: Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1607106531
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Uncle John channel-surfs through America’s favorite pastime: television. What does Homer Simpson call “friend…mother…secret lover?” Television, you meathead! Here comes your wacky neighbor Uncle John to present TV the way only he can. From test patterns to Top Chef, from My Three Sons to Mad Men, as well as TV news, advertising, scandals, sitcoms, dramas, reality shows, and yadda yadda yadda, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Tunes into TV is “dy-no-mite!” Read about… * Gilligan’s seven deadly sins * The inside story of TV’s first commercial * What goes on behind the scenes of Jeopardy! * The most incredibly bizarre shows from around the world * Why Gene Roddenberry tried to beam the original Star Trek cast into space * What reality show producers don’t want you to know * How the King of Late Night crushed his competition * What really went down on the island of LOST * Unexpected sitcom fatalities * TV’s greatest chimps And much, much more!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1607106531
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Uncle John channel-surfs through America’s favorite pastime: television. What does Homer Simpson call “friend…mother…secret lover?” Television, you meathead! Here comes your wacky neighbor Uncle John to present TV the way only he can. From test patterns to Top Chef, from My Three Sons to Mad Men, as well as TV news, advertising, scandals, sitcoms, dramas, reality shows, and yadda yadda yadda, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Tunes into TV is “dy-no-mite!” Read about… * Gilligan’s seven deadly sins * The inside story of TV’s first commercial * What goes on behind the scenes of Jeopardy! * The most incredibly bizarre shows from around the world * Why Gene Roddenberry tried to beam the original Star Trek cast into space * What reality show producers don’t want you to know * How the King of Late Night crushed his competition * What really went down on the island of LOST * Unexpected sitcom fatalities * TV’s greatest chimps And much, much more!
A Defence of the True and Catholick Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Our Saviour Christ
Author: Thomas Cranmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lord's Supper
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lord's Supper
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Fathers of the English Church; Or, a Selection from the Writings of the Reformers and Early Protestant Divines of the Church of England. With Memorials of Their Lives and Writings from Fox and Bishop Bale. [Edited by Legh Richmond.]
Author: Legh Richmond
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description