Discover information, advice, and prices for People Funny Boy The Genius sold for 34.41 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by Genius.
Arguably the most influential force in Jamaican music Lee Perry brought Bob Marley to international stardom and has since collaborated with artists such as Sir Paul McCartney The Clash and The Beastie Boys The book delves behind the myth of Perry to give a fuller examination of his life and work through extensive interviews with family members fellow artists friends lovers enemies as well as the man himself to present a complex portrait of a unique soul driven by unseen spiritual forces This revised edition contains new information on Perrys recent years including his Grammy Award and cessation of herb smoking The text has been thoroughly revised making the new edition a more factually accurate and greatly improved read
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Comic Genius Portraits of Funny sold at 25.09 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by Genius, and sold by Abebooks.com.
This starstudded tribute to the kings and queens of comedy draws together such legendary names as Steve Martin Tina Fey Steve Carell Eddie Murphy Robin Williams Ricky Gervais and many more Granted extraordinary access photographer Matt Hoyle has captured his subjects in portraits that are works of art in themselvesby turns zany and deadpan laughoutloud and contemplative Accompanying them are firstperson reflections from each of the comedians on life and laughter that always cut straight to the heart of comedy its funny because its true Page after sidesplitting page in Comic Genius offers prose as engaging as each portrait is memorable Here in one handsome package is the gift of laughter itself Comic Genius is proud to support Save The Children
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on People Funny Boy The Genius sold at 132 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by Genius, and sold by Abebooks.com.
Lee Sratch Perry is arguably the most influential force in Jamaican music He was the producer that took Bob Marley and the Wailers from a local rocksteady band to worldfamous reggae superstars He has worked for and with the entirety of reggaes heavyweight community as well as many international musicians Centering on extensive interviews with family members fellow artists friends enemies and proclamations from the man himself People Funny Boy delves behind the myth of Perry to give a riveting and revealing account of his life and work
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Arguably the most influential force in Jamaican music Lee Perry brought Bob Marley to international stardom and has since collaborated with artists such as Sir Paul McCartney The Clash and The Beastie Boys The book delves behind the myth of Perry to give a fuller examination of his life and work through extensive interviews with family members fellow artists friends lovers enemies as well as the man himself to present a complex portrait of a unique soul driven by unseen spiritual forces This revised edition contains new information on Perrys recent years including his Grammy Award and cessation of herb smoking The text has been thoroughly revised making the new edition a more factually accurate and greatly improved read
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on America s Master Dam Builder sold at 21.9 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Frank T Crowe joined the newly formed United States Reclamation Service in 1905 and headed West to work on numerous irrigation projects designed to water the West This biography of Crowe traces Crowes career from work on the Yellowstone Project up through the building of mighty Hoover and Shasta Dams
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The Biography of Admimiral Hyman G Rickoverthe acknowledges Father of the Nuclear NavyRickover was an acknowledged leader and engineering geniushe was also known for his ascerbic personalityHe served his country for 60 years in the NavyOver these years he made many powerful friends and just as powerful enemiesFinnally president Reagan was able to retire himsomething two previous presidents werent able to doThis is a well research and penetrating biography
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Raymond Briggss funniest creationthe Boy Wonder of the Stone AgeThis funny sad yet wonderfully lifeaffirming story is about a misunderstood boy genius who refuses to accept the limitations of the world in which he lives Young Ug is upwardly mobile always on the brink of finding a better way a nicer way of getting through life He discovers that the fire that comes out of the sky can make dead animal bits taste terrific but his mother thinks this is a disgusting idea and she adds Terrific What sort of word is that Dont you bring language like that into this cave He invents the wheel but doesnt know quite what to do with it What he really wants is a pair of soft warm trousers But how many millions of years must he wait for them Ugs story is told in more than 100 colorful frames with speech balloons much like a graphic novel but for a younger audience Witty footnotes explain some of the many hilarious anachronisms
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William Thomas later Lord Kelvin was one of the giants of Victorian science and engineering The establishment of the temperature of absolute zero and the Kelvin scale was but one of his many achievements which included overseeing the laying of the first transatlantic cable
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Who would have thought being smart could be so hard and so funnyMillicent Kwan is having a bad summer Her fellow high school students hate her for setting the curve Her fellow 11yearolds hate her for going to high school And her mother has arranged for her to tutor Stanford Wong the poster boy for Chinese geekdom But then Millie meets Emily Emily doesnt know Millicents IQ score She actually thinks Millie is cool And if Millie can hide her awards ignore her grandmothers advice swear her parents to silence blackmail Stanford and keep all her lies straight she just might make her first friend Whats it going to take Sheer genius
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William Thomas later Lord Kelvin was one of the giants of Victorian science and engineering The establishment of the temperature of absolute zero and the Kelvin scale was but one of his many achievements which included overseeing the laying of the first transatlantic cable
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Arthur Bean is a geniusits just that no one else realizes this quite yet Hes going to be a worldfamous author and the first step is to win this years storywriting contest What he writes is pretty funny but it gets him into trouble too Like with his English teacher And the school newspaper advisor And cool girl Kennedy And Arthurs number one nemesis Robbie Zack But all great authors spark controversy so Arthurs not too concerned Through letters email exchanges SEE ME notes and doodles enter the funny touching and often mixedup mind of Arthur Bean creative genius
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on No Ordinary Genius The Illustrated sold at 23.45 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by Genius, and sold by Abebooks.com.
An intimate moving and funny account of the remarkable life and times of Richard Feynmanthe most extraordinary scientist of his age With a unique combination of dazzling intellect and touching simplicity Feynman had a passion for physics that was merely the Nobel Prizewinning part of an immense love of life and everything it could offer He was hugely irreverent and always completely honestwith himself with his colleagues and with natureNo Ordinary Genius traces Feynmans remarkable adventures inside and outside science in words and more than onehundred photographs many of them supplied by his family and close friends The words are often his own and those of family friends and colleagues such as his sister Joan Feynman his children Carl and Michelle Freeman Dyson Hans Bethe Daniel Hillis Marvin Minsky and John Archibald Wheeler The book gives vivid insight into the mind of a great creative scientist at work and at play and it challenges the popular myth of the scientist as a cold reductionist dedicated to stripping romance and mystery from the natural world Feynmans wonderfully infectious enthusiasm shines through in his photographs and in his tales
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The long and tortured career of Ira B Arnstein the unrivaled king of copyright infringement plaintiffs opens a curious window into the evolution of copyright law in the United States As Gary A Rosen shows in this frequently funny and always entertaining history the litigious Arnstein was a trenchant observer and most improbable participant in the transformation of not just copyright but of American popular music itself A musical prodigy in the late nineteenth century Arnstein performed as a boy soprano at the famous 1893 White City exhibition in Chicago He grew up to be a composer of moderate accomplishment but by the mid1920s his fortunes had reversed in the face of changing tastes and times Embittered and confused he became convinced that he was the victim of a conspiracy to steal his music and set out on a threedecadelong campaign to prove it suing most of the major players in the popular music industry of his dayAlthough Arnstein never won a case Rosen shows that the decisions rendered ultimately defined some of the basic parameters of copyright law His most consequential case against a dumbfounded Cole Porter established precedents that have provided the foundation for successful suits against George Harrison Michael Bolton and many othersUnfair to Genius alternates the stories of Arnstein and a colorful cast of supporting characters with a fascinating account of the economic technological and legal forces of the first half of the twentieth century that shifted the balance of power from the mercenary music publishers of Tin Pan Alley to the composers and lyricists who wrote the Great American Songbook
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on King s Jester The Life sold at 56.35 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Who was Dan Leno In 1901 everyone in Britain knew who he was They had seen him live on the music hall stage listened to his jokes on the new gramophone and watched his funny antics in some of the earliest moving pictures Even King Edward VII was a fan and the popular press dubbed Dan Leno The Kings Jester But his path to fame was a hard one he journeyed from being a child performer in the London and Liverpool slums to a chaotic career in hardbitten northern variety theatres Dan became the nations favourite comedian but as one of the first mass media stars he suffered from this continual exposure and died at the early age of forty three Drawing on many previously unused sources this is first authoritative biography of Dan Leno Only Charlie Chaplin often compared to Dan in style and appearance was to occupy a similar position in the hearts of the British public In telling the full story of Dans life and career on the stage and screen Barry Anthony brings to life the everyday life of Victorian Britain as well as Dans unique brand of humour and its resonance with later comedians such as Spike Milligan and the Monty Python team
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Dad Genius Blitherings of a, priced at 20 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by Genius.
Incredibly Stupidand Really Really Funny The woman had a baby Then she had two They needed sleep and shelter and lots of food So much food But still they came One after another the children came until one day there were 8 Then the woman handed the 8 children to the man Its your turn she said The man had no plan below average cooking skills and a complete inability to fold a sweater He did things differently than the woman At first it was upsetting to some But eventually even the skeptics could see There was something about the way he did things Some called it Genius And the man He called it DAD GENIUS And this is his story Get it now PRAISE FOR DAD GENIUS Makes a below average door stop Door Stops Monthly starred review A book almost as dumb as its author Tom Dans best friend from high school A stunning achievement Dans high school English teacher when informed 80 of the book was written in complete sentences We agree with Tom This book is really dumb Jeff and Mark Dans other friends from high school I have no idea He wont let me read it That means its embarrassing right Dans mom Get it now
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The life and work of a scientist who spent his career crossing disciplinary boundariesfrom experimental neurology to psychiatry to cybernetics to engineeringWarren S McCulloch 18981969 adopted many identities in his scientific lifeamong them philosopher poet neurologist neurophysiologist neuropsychiatrist collaborator theorist cybernetician mentor engineer He was writes Tara Abraham in this account of McCullochs life and work an intellectual showman and performed this part throughout his career While McCulloch claimed a common thread in his work was the problem of mind and its relationship to the brain there was much more to him than that In Rebel Genius Abraham uses McCullochs life as a window on a past scientific age showing the complex transformations that took place in American brain and mind science in the twentieth centuryparticularly those surrounding the cybernetics movementAbraham describes McCullochs early work in neuropsychiatry and his emerging identity as a neurophysiologist She explores his transformative years at the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute and his work with Walter Pittsoften seen as the first iteration of artificial intelligence but here described as stemming from the new tradition of mathematical treatments of biological problems Abraham argues that McCullochs dual identities as neuropsychiatrist and cybernetician are inseparable He used the authority he gained in traditional disciplinary roles as a basis for posing big questions about the brain and mind as a cybernetician When McCulloch moved to the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT new practices for studying the brain grounded in mathematics philosophy and theoretical modeling expanded the relevance and ramifications of his work McCullochs transdisciplinary legacies anticipated todays multidisciplinary field of cognitive science
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Chrysler The Life and Times sold for 42.31 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Walter P Chrysler was a man who loved machines an accomplished mechanic who also had highly developed managerial skills derived from half a lifetime on the railroads and whose success came from his deep understanding of engineering and his total commitment to the quality of his vehicles Here Vincent Curcio presents a richly detailed account of one of the most important men in American automotive history based on full access to both Chrysler Corporation and Chrysler family historical records Curcio traces Chryslers rise from a locomotive wiper in a Kansas roundhouse to his rescue of the MaxwellChalmers car company which led to the successful development of the 1924 Chryslerthe worlds first modern carand the formation of Chrysler Corporation in 1925 Chrysler was quite different from the other auto giantsa colorful and expansive man deeply involved in the design of his cars he established his headquarters in New York City and built the worlds most famous art deco structure the fabled Chrysler Building Because of his emphasis on quality at popular prices the company weathered the Great Depression with flying colors and remained profitable right up to Chryslers death in 1940 The definitive portrait Chrysler is a must read for all car enthusiasts and for everyone interested in the story of a giant of industry
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Solve This Wild and Wacky sold at 23.25 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
From the first wheel to the International Space Station the miracles of engineering are all around us Think cars bridges skyscrapers and yes even bubble wrap Engineers dream up new ideas and bring them to life while figuring out creative solutions to problems they encounter along the way But how do they do it Find out in Solve This nbsp In this fun book kids are confronted with wacky scenarios like this one Youre playing with your little sister when a vulture swoops down and grabs her favorite teddy bear Midflight the vulture realizes it doesnt care for the taste of fake fur and drops it to the ground But now the plushie is on the other side of a raging river How do you stop your sister from crying stay safe and save the day Each challenge invites kids to think creatively to problem solve Then they can see how different National Geographic explorers tackled the challenge One of the big lessons Theres often more than one solution
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Art of the Skyscraper Genius sold at 251.79 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Fazlur Rahman Khan was born in Bangladesh in 1929 and immigrated to the United States in 1950 His innovative approach to tall building design and attention to esthetic detail earned him the reputation as the Einstein of Structural Engineering A Partner and Chief Structural Engineer of the worldrenowned firm of Skidmore Owens amp Merrill Khan developed the bundledtube configuration a revolutionary concept in tall building structure that virtually redefined the limits of the skyscraper The Art of the Skyscraper is the first serious study of Khans work and life¾from the 1950s when he studied at the University of Illinois to the 1970s when the world watched as his phenomenal designs for the John Hancock Center and Sears Tower rose out of the Chicago skyline to the 1980s when his engineering principles began to change urban skylines everywhere with buildings that include the Bank of China Building in Hong Kong and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia todays worlds tallest building With illustrations and detailed drawings this intriguing monograph is an invaluable resource for students architects engineers and readers interested in skyscrapers
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