Author: Sandy Thomas
Publisher: Sandy Thomas Advertising
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A boy has to spend a family vacation with his sisters...but there is one problem. He has to be a girl! Many illustrations! A SANDY THOMAS PUBLICATION
BIKINI BOUND
Author: Sandy Thomas
Publisher: Sandy Thomas Advertising
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A boy has to spend a family vacation with his sisters...but there is one problem. He has to be a girl! Many illustrations! A SANDY THOMAS PUBLICATION
Publisher: Sandy Thomas Advertising
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A boy has to spend a family vacation with his sisters...but there is one problem. He has to be a girl! Many illustrations! A SANDY THOMAS PUBLICATION
Roaring Hot!
Author: Rachelle Ayala
Publisher: Rachelle Ayala
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Motorcycle racer Teo Alexiou is challenged by his grandmother to come to her birthday party with a real girlfriend. He has plenty of party girls, and he fears getting roped into marriage so he hires an actress to play the part. The last thing Amy Suzuki wants is to be a kept woman, but her student loans are piling up and acting gigs are nonexistent. She agrees to Teo’s proposal for one summer, limited to public displays of affection. When Teo and Amy find themselves caught in love’s grip, their new desires war with their fears. Teo wants to renegotiate, but Amy insists she’s only with him because she is paid. She would never lose her heart to a man who uses money to buy affection. Their game playing explodes when Teo is injured on the track. Teo needs Amy, but how can she be sure of her true feelings when she’s an actress who can portray any emotion on command? Was her role in the reality show skillful acting or true love?
Publisher: Rachelle Ayala
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Motorcycle racer Teo Alexiou is challenged by his grandmother to come to her birthday party with a real girlfriend. He has plenty of party girls, and he fears getting roped into marriage so he hires an actress to play the part. The last thing Amy Suzuki wants is to be a kept woman, but her student loans are piling up and acting gigs are nonexistent. She agrees to Teo’s proposal for one summer, limited to public displays of affection. When Teo and Amy find themselves caught in love’s grip, their new desires war with their fears. Teo wants to renegotiate, but Amy insists she’s only with him because she is paid. She would never lose her heart to a man who uses money to buy affection. Their game playing explodes when Teo is injured on the track. Teo needs Amy, but how can she be sure of her true feelings when she’s an actress who can portray any emotion on command? Was her role in the reality show skillful acting or true love?
Surfing
Author: Benjamin Marcus
Publisher: MVP Books
ISBN: 1610587618
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Surfing enthusiast Ben Marcus takes you as close to the waves as you can get without hitting the beach. Surfing is more than just a sport; it is a cultural phenomenon. From its mystical beginnings in Polynesia, surfing has evolved into a worldwide passion, establishing its own roster of legends and seeping into our society—in movies, in fashion, in music, and in language. Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku, the “father of surfing,” helped elevate the sport beyond its Pacific Islands origins more than a century ago, and his torch has been carried on by a long line of surf heroes: Woody Brown, Mickey Dora, Laird Hamilton, Kelly Slater, and many, many others. During the 1950s and 1960s, surf culture and fashion exploded into movies and music. “Gidget,” the Beach Boys, and even Elvis Presley exposed surfing to the masses, and decades later, the sport and its proponents remain fixtures in pop culture and the media. Yet, through the years, surfing has maintained its reputation as a refuge for non-conformists; its often below-the-radar individualistic lifestyle defies a dry chronicle neatly tied up with a bow. In this comprehensive history of surfing, author Ben Marcus captures the glamour and excitement of this extreme sport. If you are still in awe of that first surfboard, still stoked by hanging ten, or still dreaming of that elusive wave, then this book is for you. Surfing: An Illustrated History of the Coolest Sport of All Time brings you up close and personal to the exciting world of surfing.
Publisher: MVP Books
ISBN: 1610587618
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Surfing enthusiast Ben Marcus takes you as close to the waves as you can get without hitting the beach. Surfing is more than just a sport; it is a cultural phenomenon. From its mystical beginnings in Polynesia, surfing has evolved into a worldwide passion, establishing its own roster of legends and seeping into our society—in movies, in fashion, in music, and in language. Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku, the “father of surfing,” helped elevate the sport beyond its Pacific Islands origins more than a century ago, and his torch has been carried on by a long line of surf heroes: Woody Brown, Mickey Dora, Laird Hamilton, Kelly Slater, and many, many others. During the 1950s and 1960s, surf culture and fashion exploded into movies and music. “Gidget,” the Beach Boys, and even Elvis Presley exposed surfing to the masses, and decades later, the sport and its proponents remain fixtures in pop culture and the media. Yet, through the years, surfing has maintained its reputation as a refuge for non-conformists; its often below-the-radar individualistic lifestyle defies a dry chronicle neatly tied up with a bow. In this comprehensive history of surfing, author Ben Marcus captures the glamour and excitement of this extreme sport. If you are still in awe of that first surfboard, still stoked by hanging ten, or still dreaming of that elusive wave, then this book is for you. Surfing: An Illustrated History of the Coolest Sport of All Time brings you up close and personal to the exciting world of surfing.
All Hands
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Surfing USA!
Author: Jeff Divine, Ben Marcus
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610606868
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610606868
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Graybeard
Author: Samuel Gifford
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595200397
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Keven McCoon was the perfect killer working for the perfect client: the U.S.Government. Then he saw something he shouldn't have seen and the hunter became the hunted. His flight from government pursuers takes surprising twists and turns and he is cast in a powerful, dangerous situation at sea with two people desperately running, but from themselves. The trio sail from Portsmouth, N.H. to Bermuda and then to the Virgins on a trip fraught with dangers from the sea and their nemeses. The flight ends in a thrilling and unpredictable confrontation that can best be described as deafening. The main characters are complete, but imperfect people who rise to present heroic performances as the plot develops. Graybeard is truly what reviewers call "a good read."
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595200397
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Keven McCoon was the perfect killer working for the perfect client: the U.S.Government. Then he saw something he shouldn't have seen and the hunter became the hunted. His flight from government pursuers takes surprising twists and turns and he is cast in a powerful, dangerous situation at sea with two people desperately running, but from themselves. The trio sail from Portsmouth, N.H. to Bermuda and then to the Virgins on a trip fraught with dangers from the sea and their nemeses. The flight ends in a thrilling and unpredictable confrontation that can best be described as deafening. The main characters are complete, but imperfect people who rise to present heroic performances as the plot develops. Graybeard is truly what reviewers call "a good read."
Flipping the Switch
Author: Jennifer A. Palermo
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477244840
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
YOU CAN FLIP THE SWITCH AND TURN OFF BULIMIA PERMANENTLY WITHOUT DRUGS OR THERAPY Flipping the Switch: Freedom from Bulimia provides you, the reader, with a better understanding of what your disorder is, how you acquired it, why it perpetuates, and what it will take for you to recover successfully. This book offers a comprehensive self-guided recovery program to help you flip the switch and turn off bulimia permanently. For the first time, the answers sought by anyone who has ever suffered from an eating disorder, are available in written form to be used in the privacy of their own home. While everyones journey of recovery is different, this book can help get you started on the right path to finally accomplish what you have been waiting so long to do- triumphantly succeed in breaking your addiction to food and reclaiming the life youve lost to bulimia. This book challenges the idea that one is powerless over addiction and provides hope to those who have tried traditional eating disorder therapy with no success. Flipping the Switch dissects the process of how addiction rewires the brain. Empowered with this information you will be able to go from self-destruction to self-reconstruction upon completion of this book. The author wrote this book after her personal 22 year struggle with bulimia finally came to an end. Frustrated with traditional recovery programs, the author felt compelled to devise her own self-reconstruction method. Having gone through the recovery process herself, she has keen insight of the obstacles one faces as a food addict and understands how difficult becoming abstinence can be. Armed with the knowledge and strategies presented here, you will understand what is needed to break the cycle of addiction and be prepared to face bulimia head on. The step-by-step recovery plan and transitional diet offered here helps you make the transition from binge eating to "normal" eating in a non-threatening manner.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477244840
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
YOU CAN FLIP THE SWITCH AND TURN OFF BULIMIA PERMANENTLY WITHOUT DRUGS OR THERAPY Flipping the Switch: Freedom from Bulimia provides you, the reader, with a better understanding of what your disorder is, how you acquired it, why it perpetuates, and what it will take for you to recover successfully. This book offers a comprehensive self-guided recovery program to help you flip the switch and turn off bulimia permanently. For the first time, the answers sought by anyone who has ever suffered from an eating disorder, are available in written form to be used in the privacy of their own home. While everyones journey of recovery is different, this book can help get you started on the right path to finally accomplish what you have been waiting so long to do- triumphantly succeed in breaking your addiction to food and reclaiming the life youve lost to bulimia. This book challenges the idea that one is powerless over addiction and provides hope to those who have tried traditional eating disorder therapy with no success. Flipping the Switch dissects the process of how addiction rewires the brain. Empowered with this information you will be able to go from self-destruction to self-reconstruction upon completion of this book. The author wrote this book after her personal 22 year struggle with bulimia finally came to an end. Frustrated with traditional recovery programs, the author felt compelled to devise her own self-reconstruction method. Having gone through the recovery process herself, she has keen insight of the obstacles one faces as a food addict and understands how difficult becoming abstinence can be. Armed with the knowledge and strategies presented here, you will understand what is needed to break the cycle of addiction and be prepared to face bulimia head on. The step-by-step recovery plan and transitional diet offered here helps you make the transition from binge eating to "normal" eating in a non-threatening manner.
Bound by Contract- Bundle
Author: Lavanya
Publisher: Lavanya
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
My one passionate mistake led to my downfall... He stole me in broad daylight and whisked me away to a land far, far away. But this wasn’t a fairytale. And he wasn’t my hero. Broke and with nothing to lose, I thought I had no way to go but up. But boy, was I wrong! He took one look at me. One kiss, one passionate night. And that was all it took for my life to become his! Like I said, he wasn’t the hero. All the four books in one bundle!!! Bound by Contract Bound by Diamonds Bound by Honor Bound by Love He was the villain. Nor was I the heroine, I was the villain’s plaything, bound by his contract.
Publisher: Lavanya
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
My one passionate mistake led to my downfall... He stole me in broad daylight and whisked me away to a land far, far away. But this wasn’t a fairytale. And he wasn’t my hero. Broke and with nothing to lose, I thought I had no way to go but up. But boy, was I wrong! He took one look at me. One kiss, one passionate night. And that was all it took for my life to become his! Like I said, he wasn’t the hero. All the four books in one bundle!!! Bound by Contract Bound by Diamonds Bound by Honor Bound by Love He was the villain. Nor was I the heroine, I was the villain’s plaything, bound by his contract.
Urban Reinventions
Author: Lynne Horiuchi
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824866053
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
When it was built in 1937, Treasure Island was considered to be one of the largest man-made islands in the world. Located in the middle of San Francisco Bay, the 400-acre island was constructed out of dredged bay mud in a remarkable feat of Depression-era civil engineering by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Its alluring name is an allusion to the fabled remnants of the California Gold Rush found in the ocean sediment that formed the island. This collection of essays tells the story of San Francisco’s Treasure Island—an artificial, disconnected island that has paradoxically been central to the city’s urban ambitions. Conceived as a site for San Francisco’s first airport in an age of automobile and air transport, Treasure Island hosted the Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) in 1939 and 1940, celebrating the completion of the Golden Gate and the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridges. With particular focus on Asia and Latin America, the GGIE promoted peace, harmony, and commerce in the Pacific. Treasure Island’s planned use as an airport was scuttled when World War II abruptly reversed the exposition’s message of Pacific unity, and the US government developed Treasure Island and the adjacent Yerba Buena Island into a naval training and transfer station, which processed 4,500,000 military personnel on their way to the Pacific theater. In the midst of a twenty-first-century high-tech boom and in one of the most expensive real-estate markets in the world, the city of San Francisco and its developers have proposed an ambitious model of military base reuse and green urbanism—a new eco-city of about 19,000 residents on Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island. The project is synonymous with a growing global trend toward large-scale, capital-intensive land developments envisioned around ideas of sustainability and spectacular place making. Seen against the successive history of development, future visions for Treasure Island are part of a process of building and erasure that Horiuchi and Sankalia call urban reinventions. This is a process of radical change in which artificial, detached, and delimited sites such as Treasure Island provide an ideal plane for tabula rasa planning driven by property, capital, and state control. With essays by contributors well known for their interdisciplinary work, Urban Reinventions demonstrates how a single site may be interpreted in multiple ways: as an artificial island, world’s fair site, military installation, a semi-derelict relic of past lives, a toxic site of nuclear waste, and a future eco-city and major real estate development. The volume offers a wide spectrum of critiques of race, imperialism, gendered Orientalism, military land use, property capital exchange, new eco-cities, sustainability, and waste as a byproduct of development. The book will be of interest to general readers as well as teachers, scholars, and practitioners in the fields of geography, architecture, city planning, urban design, history, environmental studies, American studies, Asian studies, and military history, among others.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824866053
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
When it was built in 1937, Treasure Island was considered to be one of the largest man-made islands in the world. Located in the middle of San Francisco Bay, the 400-acre island was constructed out of dredged bay mud in a remarkable feat of Depression-era civil engineering by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Its alluring name is an allusion to the fabled remnants of the California Gold Rush found in the ocean sediment that formed the island. This collection of essays tells the story of San Francisco’s Treasure Island—an artificial, disconnected island that has paradoxically been central to the city’s urban ambitions. Conceived as a site for San Francisco’s first airport in an age of automobile and air transport, Treasure Island hosted the Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) in 1939 and 1940, celebrating the completion of the Golden Gate and the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridges. With particular focus on Asia and Latin America, the GGIE promoted peace, harmony, and commerce in the Pacific. Treasure Island’s planned use as an airport was scuttled when World War II abruptly reversed the exposition’s message of Pacific unity, and the US government developed Treasure Island and the adjacent Yerba Buena Island into a naval training and transfer station, which processed 4,500,000 military personnel on their way to the Pacific theater. In the midst of a twenty-first-century high-tech boom and in one of the most expensive real-estate markets in the world, the city of San Francisco and its developers have proposed an ambitious model of military base reuse and green urbanism—a new eco-city of about 19,000 residents on Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island. The project is synonymous with a growing global trend toward large-scale, capital-intensive land developments envisioned around ideas of sustainability and spectacular place making. Seen against the successive history of development, future visions for Treasure Island are part of a process of building and erasure that Horiuchi and Sankalia call urban reinventions. This is a process of radical change in which artificial, detached, and delimited sites such as Treasure Island provide an ideal plane for tabula rasa planning driven by property, capital, and state control. With essays by contributors well known for their interdisciplinary work, Urban Reinventions demonstrates how a single site may be interpreted in multiple ways: as an artificial island, world’s fair site, military installation, a semi-derelict relic of past lives, a toxic site of nuclear waste, and a future eco-city and major real estate development. The volume offers a wide spectrum of critiques of race, imperialism, gendered Orientalism, military land use, property capital exchange, new eco-cities, sustainability, and waste as a byproduct of development. The book will be of interest to general readers as well as teachers, scholars, and practitioners in the fields of geography, architecture, city planning, urban design, history, environmental studies, American studies, Asian studies, and military history, among others.
Atomic Bill
Author: Vincent Kiernan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501766007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In Atomic Bill, Vincent Kiernan examines the fraught career of New York Times science journalist, William L. Laurence and shows his professional and personal lives to be a cautionary tale of dangerous proximity to power. Laurence was fascinated with atomic science and its militarization. When the Manhattan Project drew near to perfecting the atomic bomb, he was recruited to write much of the government's press materials that were distributed on the day that Hiroshima was obliterated. That instantly crowned Laurence as one of the leading journalistic experts on the atomic bomb. As the Cold War dawned, some assessed Laurence as a propagandist defending the militarization of atomic energy. For others, he was a skilled science communicator who provided the public with a deep understanding of the atomic bomb. Laurence leveraged his perch at the Times to engage in paid speechmaking, book writing, filmmaking, and radio broadcasting. His work for the Times declined in quality even as his relationships with people in power grew closer and more lucrative. Atomic Bill reveals extraordinary ethical lapses by Laurence such as a cheating scandal at Harvard University and plagiarizing from press releases about atomic bomb tests in the Pacific. In 1963 a conflict of interest related to the 1964 World's Fair in New York City led to his forced retirement from the Times. Kiernan shows Laurence to have set the trend, common among today's journalists of science and technology, to prioritize gee-whiz coverage of discoveries. That approach, in which Laurence served the interests of governmental official and scientists, recommends a full revision of our understanding of the dawn of the atomic era.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501766007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In Atomic Bill, Vincent Kiernan examines the fraught career of New York Times science journalist, William L. Laurence and shows his professional and personal lives to be a cautionary tale of dangerous proximity to power. Laurence was fascinated with atomic science and its militarization. When the Manhattan Project drew near to perfecting the atomic bomb, he was recruited to write much of the government's press materials that were distributed on the day that Hiroshima was obliterated. That instantly crowned Laurence as one of the leading journalistic experts on the atomic bomb. As the Cold War dawned, some assessed Laurence as a propagandist defending the militarization of atomic energy. For others, he was a skilled science communicator who provided the public with a deep understanding of the atomic bomb. Laurence leveraged his perch at the Times to engage in paid speechmaking, book writing, filmmaking, and radio broadcasting. His work for the Times declined in quality even as his relationships with people in power grew closer and more lucrative. Atomic Bill reveals extraordinary ethical lapses by Laurence such as a cheating scandal at Harvard University and plagiarizing from press releases about atomic bomb tests in the Pacific. In 1963 a conflict of interest related to the 1964 World's Fair in New York City led to his forced retirement from the Times. Kiernan shows Laurence to have set the trend, common among today's journalists of science and technology, to prioritize gee-whiz coverage of discoveries. That approach, in which Laurence served the interests of governmental official and scientists, recommends a full revision of our understanding of the dawn of the atomic era.