Author: Karl Shaw
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 147211745X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Prepare to be even more revolted, flabbergasted, appalled and entertained by this incredible follow-up collection of bizarre but absolutely true trivia. Nothing is too distasteful for this astonishing compendium, including scores of eclectic lists to amuse, astonish and appal your friends. Entries include: 10 Road-kill Recipes History’s 10 Most Murderous Regimes 10 Historic Sex Toys 10 People who Married Their Nieces 10 Deaths by Sex 10 People Killed by Falling Animals 10 Ancient Remedies Containing Body Parts 10 Flatalogical Facts 8 Most Violent National Anthems 15 Premature Obituaries 10 Unusual Royal Deaths 10 Cruel and Unusual Punishments 10 Notable Executions 12 Elizabethan Insults
The Mammoth Book of Tasteless and Outrageous Lists
Author: Karl Shaw
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 147211745X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Prepare to be even more revolted, flabbergasted, appalled and entertained by this incredible follow-up collection of bizarre but absolutely true trivia. Nothing is too distasteful for this astonishing compendium, including scores of eclectic lists to amuse, astonish and appal your friends. Entries include: 10 Road-kill Recipes History’s 10 Most Murderous Regimes 10 Historic Sex Toys 10 People who Married Their Nieces 10 Deaths by Sex 10 People Killed by Falling Animals 10 Ancient Remedies Containing Body Parts 10 Flatalogical Facts 8 Most Violent National Anthems 15 Premature Obituaries 10 Unusual Royal Deaths 10 Cruel and Unusual Punishments 10 Notable Executions 12 Elizabethan Insults
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 147211745X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Prepare to be even more revolted, flabbergasted, appalled and entertained by this incredible follow-up collection of bizarre but absolutely true trivia. Nothing is too distasteful for this astonishing compendium, including scores of eclectic lists to amuse, astonish and appal your friends. Entries include: 10 Road-kill Recipes History’s 10 Most Murderous Regimes 10 Historic Sex Toys 10 People who Married Their Nieces 10 Deaths by Sex 10 People Killed by Falling Animals 10 Ancient Remedies Containing Body Parts 10 Flatalogical Facts 8 Most Violent National Anthems 15 Premature Obituaries 10 Unusual Royal Deaths 10 Cruel and Unusual Punishments 10 Notable Executions 12 Elizabethan Insults
Jurassic Towel Origami
Author: Alison Jenkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781905695782
Category : Origami
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
JURASSIC TOWEL ORIGAMI offers you the Neanderthal, yet strangely contemporary, opportunity to indulge in a spot of pre-civilization towel folding before bathtime. Amaze your houseguests and celebrate your ancestors by creating anyone of 15 distinctive towel models, from a Brontosaurus to a Stegosaurus, from a woolly mammoth to a soft furnished Stonehenge. Night time is the right time to discover your inner caveman, with prehistoric Towel Origami: the craft that bath time forgot!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781905695782
Category : Origami
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
JURASSIC TOWEL ORIGAMI offers you the Neanderthal, yet strangely contemporary, opportunity to indulge in a spot of pre-civilization towel folding before bathtime. Amaze your houseguests and celebrate your ancestors by creating anyone of 15 distinctive towel models, from a Brontosaurus to a Stegosaurus, from a woolly mammoth to a soft furnished Stonehenge. Night time is the right time to discover your inner caveman, with prehistoric Towel Origami: the craft that bath time forgot!
The Lost Art of Towel Origami
Author: Alison Jenkins
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740755633
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Step-by-step instructions and illustrations explain how to create fun decorations, including animals, baskets, and cakes, using bathroom towels.
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740755633
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Step-by-step instructions and illustrations explain how to create fun decorations, including animals, baskets, and cakes, using bathroom towels.
The Knight Craft Book
Author: Laura Minter
Publisher: GMC Publications
ISBN: 9781784941000
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
15 knight crafts, including castles, catapults, crowns and shields.
Publisher: GMC Publications
ISBN: 9781784941000
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
15 knight crafts, including castles, catapults, crowns and shields.
Modern Look
Author: Mason Klein
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300247192
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A fascinating exploration of how photography, graphic design, and popular magazines converged to transform American visual culture at mid-century This dynamic study examines the intersection of modernist photography and American commercial graphic design between 1930 and 1960. Avant-garde strategies in photography and design reached the United States via European émigrés, including Bauhaus artists forced out of Nazi Germany. The unmistakable aesthetic made popular by such magazines as Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue—whose art directors, Alexey Brodovitch and Alexander Liberman, were both immigrants and accomplished photographers—emerged from a distinctly American combination of innovation, inclusiveness, and pragmatism. Beautifully illustrated with more than 150 revolutionary photographs, layouts, and cover designs, Modern Look considers the connections and mutual influences of such designers and photographers as Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, Herbert Bayer, Robert Frank, Lisette Model, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Cipe Pineles, and Paul Rand. Essays draw a lineage from European experimental design to innovative work in American magazine design at mid-century and offer insights into the role of gender in fashion photography and political activism in the mass media.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300247192
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A fascinating exploration of how photography, graphic design, and popular magazines converged to transform American visual culture at mid-century This dynamic study examines the intersection of modernist photography and American commercial graphic design between 1930 and 1960. Avant-garde strategies in photography and design reached the United States via European émigrés, including Bauhaus artists forced out of Nazi Germany. The unmistakable aesthetic made popular by such magazines as Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue—whose art directors, Alexey Brodovitch and Alexander Liberman, were both immigrants and accomplished photographers—emerged from a distinctly American combination of innovation, inclusiveness, and pragmatism. Beautifully illustrated with more than 150 revolutionary photographs, layouts, and cover designs, Modern Look considers the connections and mutual influences of such designers and photographers as Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, Herbert Bayer, Robert Frank, Lisette Model, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Cipe Pineles, and Paul Rand. Essays draw a lineage from European experimental design to innovative work in American magazine design at mid-century and offer insights into the role of gender in fashion photography and political activism in the mass media.
Submergence
Author: J. M. Ledgard
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566893305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Award-winning foreign correspondent’s cerebral spy novel-cum-love story exposes humanity’s tenuous hold on a vast and relentless world.
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566893305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Award-winning foreign correspondent’s cerebral spy novel-cum-love story exposes humanity’s tenuous hold on a vast and relentless world.
Wacky Baby Knits
Author: Alison Jenkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780731814404
Category : Infants' clothing
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
During your baby's earliest months, he or she will be fascinated by many things in the world around them, but fashion is unlikely to be one of them. So it's up to you to ensure that your baby is dressed to impress, and here is the perfect starting point. Any parent can buy something cute or colorful from their local stores, but can they buy something truly original? With Wacky Baby Knits you'll be rummaging through your baby's wardrobe and encountering the daily dilemma of cow suit or biker jacket? The Davy Crockett hat or the Elvis wig? What parent could miss out on this unique part of parenthood? Featuring a collection of 20 unique designs for fun and unusual knitted clothes, the book includes the most creative of ideas, ranging from individual items such as hats, wigs, booties, and jackets to inspired all-in-one suits for the toddler superhero. The instructions are easy-to-follow and there is a guide to the basic knitting techniques, so you don't have to be an experienced knitter to start creating clothing that is guaranteed to be the funkiest, wackiest, and most original in the nursery.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780731814404
Category : Infants' clothing
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
During your baby's earliest months, he or she will be fascinated by many things in the world around them, but fashion is unlikely to be one of them. So it's up to you to ensure that your baby is dressed to impress, and here is the perfect starting point. Any parent can buy something cute or colorful from their local stores, but can they buy something truly original? With Wacky Baby Knits you'll be rummaging through your baby's wardrobe and encountering the daily dilemma of cow suit or biker jacket? The Davy Crockett hat or the Elvis wig? What parent could miss out on this unique part of parenthood? Featuring a collection of 20 unique designs for fun and unusual knitted clothes, the book includes the most creative of ideas, ranging from individual items such as hats, wigs, booties, and jackets to inspired all-in-one suits for the toddler superhero. The instructions are easy-to-follow and there is a guide to the basic knitting techniques, so you don't have to be an experienced knitter to start creating clothing that is guaranteed to be the funkiest, wackiest, and most original in the nursery.
Diamond Mountains
Author: Soyoung Lee
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588396533
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Mount Geumgang, also known as the Diamond Mountains, is perhaps the most famous and emotionally resonant site on the Korean Peninsula, a magnificent range of rocky peaks, waterfalls, and lagoons, dotted with pavilions and temples. Since ancient times, it has inspired cultural pride, spurred spiritual and artistic pilgrimages, and engendered an outpouring of creative expression. Yet since the partition of Korea in 1945 situated it in the North, Mount Geumgang has remained largely inaccessible to visitors, shrouded in legend, loss, and longing. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} Diamond Mountains: Travel and Nostalgia in Korean Art is the first book in English to explore the pictorial representations of this grand and varied landscape. The special exhibition it accompanies, organized by Soyoung Lee, Curator in the Department of Asian Art, examines the evolution of Diamond Mountains imagery from the golden age of Korean true-view painting in the eighteenth century to the present day. Even today, when a profusion of Instagram photos can make the world’s most obscure sites and geographical oddities seem familiar, the Diamond Mountains portrayed here in album leaves, scrolls, and screens will be a revelation to many.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588396533
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Mount Geumgang, also known as the Diamond Mountains, is perhaps the most famous and emotionally resonant site on the Korean Peninsula, a magnificent range of rocky peaks, waterfalls, and lagoons, dotted with pavilions and temples. Since ancient times, it has inspired cultural pride, spurred spiritual and artistic pilgrimages, and engendered an outpouring of creative expression. Yet since the partition of Korea in 1945 situated it in the North, Mount Geumgang has remained largely inaccessible to visitors, shrouded in legend, loss, and longing. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} Diamond Mountains: Travel and Nostalgia in Korean Art is the first book in English to explore the pictorial representations of this grand and varied landscape. The special exhibition it accompanies, organized by Soyoung Lee, Curator in the Department of Asian Art, examines the evolution of Diamond Mountains imagery from the golden age of Korean true-view painting in the eighteenth century to the present day. Even today, when a profusion of Instagram photos can make the world’s most obscure sites and geographical oddities seem familiar, the Diamond Mountains portrayed here in album leaves, scrolls, and screens will be a revelation to many.
The Knitting Directory
Author: Alison Jenkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781840137286
Category : Knitting
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781840137286
Category : Knitting
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Mrs. Smith's Spy School for Girls
Author: Beth McMullen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481490222
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
A girl discovers her boarding school is actually an elite spy-training program, and she must learn the skills of the trade in order to find her mother in this action-packed middle grade debut that’s perfect for fans of Stu Gibbs. After a botched escape plan from her boarding school, Abigail is stunned to discover the school is actually a cover for an elite spy ring called The Center, along with being training grounds for future spies. Even more shocking? Abigail’s mother is a top agent for The Center and she has gone MIA, with valuable information that many people would like to have—at any cost. Along with a former nemesis and charming boy from her grade, Abigail goes through a crash course in Spy Training 101, often with hilarious—and sometimes painful—results. But Abigail realizes she might be a better spy-in-training than she thought—and the answers to her mother’s whereabouts are a lot closer than she thinks…
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481490222
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
A girl discovers her boarding school is actually an elite spy-training program, and she must learn the skills of the trade in order to find her mother in this action-packed middle grade debut that’s perfect for fans of Stu Gibbs. After a botched escape plan from her boarding school, Abigail is stunned to discover the school is actually a cover for an elite spy ring called The Center, along with being training grounds for future spies. Even more shocking? Abigail’s mother is a top agent for The Center and she has gone MIA, with valuable information that many people would like to have—at any cost. Along with a former nemesis and charming boy from her grade, Abigail goes through a crash course in Spy Training 101, often with hilarious—and sometimes painful—results. But Abigail realizes she might be a better spy-in-training than she thought—and the answers to her mother’s whereabouts are a lot closer than she thinks…