Author: Michael Hearst
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452104670
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
"Introduces the reader to a wealth of extraordinary life forms"-- P. [4] of cover.
Unusual Creatures
Rare Air
Author: Michael Jordan
Publisher: Collins Pub San Francisco
ISBN: 9780006382560
Category : Basketball players
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Complete before his resignation from basketball, Jordan discusses his love of the game, his family, and his competitiveness
Publisher: Collins Pub San Francisco
ISBN: 9780006382560
Category : Basketball players
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Complete before his resignation from basketball, Jordan discusses his love of the game, his family, and his competitiveness
Space-time Transients and Unusual Events
Author: Michael A. Persinger
Publisher: Chicago : Nelson-Hall
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher: Chicago : Nelson-Hall
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Strange Details
Author: Mike Cadwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Looks at the work of four canonical architects who "made strange" with the most resistant aspect of architecture - construction. This title explores the strangeness in the material menagerie of Scarpa's Querini Stampalia, the wood light frame construction of Wright's Jacobs House, the welded steel frame of Mies' Farnsworth House, and more.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Looks at the work of four canonical architects who "made strange" with the most resistant aspect of architecture - construction. This title explores the strangeness in the material menagerie of Scarpa's Querini Stampalia, the wood light frame construction of Wright's Jacobs House, the welded steel frame of Mies' Farnsworth House, and more.
Second Coming
Author: Sam Smith
Publisher: Harpercollins
ISBN: 9780060175023
Category : African American basketball players
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The inside story of Michael Jordan's surprising departure from and return to the Chicago Bulls describes his anguish over his father's death, reaction to rumors about his gambling, and his attempts to succeed in major league baseball. 250,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.
Publisher: Harpercollins
ISBN: 9780060175023
Category : African American basketball players
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The inside story of Michael Jordan's surprising departure from and return to the Chicago Bulls describes his anguish over his father's death, reaction to rumors about his gambling, and his attempts to succeed in major league baseball. 250,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.
What a Strange Little Man
Author: Michael Straessle
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1606931946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The Aurelius' live a predictable life; they like it that way. Michael is a prison guard for the Roman Empire and Mary is a homemaker wishing for children. For the past two years, Michael has been guarding a strange little man who has caused their comfortable lifestyle to be anything but. Conversations garnered questions for which there seemed to be no answers. Questions about the existence of God, the reaity of a resurrected Savior, the appearance of the supernatural; these were things that brought Michael to the brink of madness. Read this account of a journey from a little prison in Rome to a future prison that no one could predict!
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1606931946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The Aurelius' live a predictable life; they like it that way. Michael is a prison guard for the Roman Empire and Mary is a homemaker wishing for children. For the past two years, Michael has been guarding a strange little man who has caused their comfortable lifestyle to be anything but. Conversations garnered questions for which there seemed to be no answers. Questions about the existence of God, the reaity of a resurrected Savior, the appearance of the supernatural; these were things that brought Michael to the brink of madness. Read this account of a journey from a little prison in Rome to a future prison that no one could predict!
The Lines We Cross
Author: Randa Abdel-Fattah
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338118676
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
A remarkable story about the power of tolerance from one of the most important voices in contemporary Muslim literature, critically acclaimed author Randa Abdel-Fattah. Michael likes to hang out with his friends and play with the latest graphic design software. His parents drag him to rallies held by their anti-immigrant group, which rails against the tide of refugees flooding the country. And it all makes sense to Michael.Until Mina, a beautiful girl from the other side of the protest lines, shows up at his school, and turns out to be funny, smart -- and a Muslim refugee from Afghanistan. Suddenly, his parents' politics seem much more complicated.Mina has had a long and dangerous journey fleeing her besieged home in Afghanistan, and now faces a frigid reception at her new prep school, where she is on scholarship. As tensions rise, lines are drawn. Michael has to decide where he stands. Mina has to protect herself and her family. Both have to choose what they want their world to look like.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338118676
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
A remarkable story about the power of tolerance from one of the most important voices in contemporary Muslim literature, critically acclaimed author Randa Abdel-Fattah. Michael likes to hang out with his friends and play with the latest graphic design software. His parents drag him to rallies held by their anti-immigrant group, which rails against the tide of refugees flooding the country. And it all makes sense to Michael.Until Mina, a beautiful girl from the other side of the protest lines, shows up at his school, and turns out to be funny, smart -- and a Muslim refugee from Afghanistan. Suddenly, his parents' politics seem much more complicated.Mina has had a long and dangerous journey fleeing her besieged home in Afghanistan, and now faces a frigid reception at her new prep school, where she is on scholarship. As tensions rise, lines are drawn. Michael has to decide where he stands. Mina has to protect herself and her family. Both have to choose what they want their world to look like.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393324826
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393324826
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.
Weird Cars
Author: Michael Banovsky
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781505509694
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Weird Cars is compilation of 77 avant garde, silly, slow, experimental, failed, rare, ridiculous, revolutionary, obsolete, obscure idiotic, and X-rated machines.Written for the knowledgable and adventurous automotive enthusiast, the book is a series of vignettes focused on car stories you won't read anywhere else. As much as you may know about automotive history, sometimes strange things happen. Designs emerge. Tastes change. Economies collapse. Companies merge. Racing selects the winners. Sales Weird cars are interesting because they're different. Because sometimes the world wasn't ready-and sometimes because people don't want to buy a Ferrari with no doors. From a royal car named after a nuclear bomb test to an SUV known by its exhaust pipes, Weird Cars is a collection of misfits thrown together simply because they don't belong anywhere else.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781505509694
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Weird Cars is compilation of 77 avant garde, silly, slow, experimental, failed, rare, ridiculous, revolutionary, obsolete, obscure idiotic, and X-rated machines.Written for the knowledgable and adventurous automotive enthusiast, the book is a series of vignettes focused on car stories you won't read anywhere else. As much as you may know about automotive history, sometimes strange things happen. Designs emerge. Tastes change. Economies collapse. Companies merge. Racing selects the winners. Sales Weird cars are interesting because they're different. Because sometimes the world wasn't ready-and sometimes because people don't want to buy a Ferrari with no doors. From a royal car named after a nuclear bomb test to an SUV known by its exhaust pipes, Weird Cars is a collection of misfits thrown together simply because they don't belong anywhere else.
Rare Objects
Author: Kathleen Tessaro
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062357565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In Depression-era Boston, a city divided by privilege and poverty, two unlikely friends are bound by a dangerous secret in this mesmerizing novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume Collector. Maeve Fanning is a first generation Irish immigrant, born and raised among the poor, industrious Italian families of Boston’s North End by her widowed mother. Clever, capable, and as headstrong as her red hair suggests, she’s determined to better herself despite the overwhelming hardships of the Great Depression. However, Maeve also has a dangerous fondness for strange men and bootleg gin—a rebellious appetite that soon finds her spiraling downward, leading a double life. When the strain proves too much, Maeve becomes an unwilling patient in a psychiatric hospital, where she strikes up a friendship with an enigmatic young woman, who, like Maeve, is unable or unwilling to control her un-lady-like desire for freedom. Once out, Maeve faces starting over again. Armed with a bottle of bleach and a few white lies, she lands a job at an eccentric antiques shop catering to Boston’s wealthiest and most peculiar collectors. Run by an elusive English archeologist, the shop is a haven of the obscure and incredible, providing rare artifacts as well as unique access to the world of America’s social elite. While delivering a purchase to the wealthy Van der Laar family, Maeve is introduced to beautiful socialite Diana Van der Laar—only to discover she’s the young woman from the hospital. Reunited with the charming but increasingly unstable Diana and pursued by her attractive brother James, Mae becomes more and more entwined with the Van der Laar family—a connection that pulls her into a world of moral ambiguity and deceit, and ultimately betrayal. Bewitched by their wealth and desperate to leave her past behind, Maeve is forced to unearth her true values and discover how far she’ll to go to reinvent herself.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062357565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In Depression-era Boston, a city divided by privilege and poverty, two unlikely friends are bound by a dangerous secret in this mesmerizing novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume Collector. Maeve Fanning is a first generation Irish immigrant, born and raised among the poor, industrious Italian families of Boston’s North End by her widowed mother. Clever, capable, and as headstrong as her red hair suggests, she’s determined to better herself despite the overwhelming hardships of the Great Depression. However, Maeve also has a dangerous fondness for strange men and bootleg gin—a rebellious appetite that soon finds her spiraling downward, leading a double life. When the strain proves too much, Maeve becomes an unwilling patient in a psychiatric hospital, where she strikes up a friendship with an enigmatic young woman, who, like Maeve, is unable or unwilling to control her un-lady-like desire for freedom. Once out, Maeve faces starting over again. Armed with a bottle of bleach and a few white lies, she lands a job at an eccentric antiques shop catering to Boston’s wealthiest and most peculiar collectors. Run by an elusive English archeologist, the shop is a haven of the obscure and incredible, providing rare artifacts as well as unique access to the world of America’s social elite. While delivering a purchase to the wealthy Van der Laar family, Maeve is introduced to beautiful socialite Diana Van der Laar—only to discover she’s the young woman from the hospital. Reunited with the charming but increasingly unstable Diana and pursued by her attractive brother James, Mae becomes more and more entwined with the Van der Laar family—a connection that pulls her into a world of moral ambiguity and deceit, and ultimately betrayal. Bewitched by their wealth and desperate to leave her past behind, Maeve is forced to unearth her true values and discover how far she’ll to go to reinvent herself.