Download or read book The Comic Strip Big Fat Book of Knowledge written by Tracey Turner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides comic-illustrated introductions to a wide variety of subjects, from the microscopic world and the mythologies that shaped world cultures to the evolution of the planet and the secrets of the known universe.
Download or read book Big Book of Epic Fail written by Aaron Williams and published by . This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Most Important Comic Book on Earth written by Cara Delevingne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 120 inspiring visual stories on environmentalism from key figures, charities, activists, and artists. The Most Important Comic Book On Earth is a global collaboration for planetary change, bringing together a diverse team of 300 leading environmentalists, artists, authors, actors, filmmakers, musicians, and more to present over 120 stories to save the world. Whether it’s inspirational tales from celebrity names such as Cara Delevingne and Andy Serkis, hilarious webcomics from War and Peas and Ricky Gervais, artworks by leading illustrators David Mack and Tula Lotay, calls to action from activists George Monbiot and Jane Goodall, or powerful stories by Brian Azzarello and Amy Chu, each of the comics in this anthology will support projects and organizations fighting to save the planet and Rewrite Extinction.
Download or read book Hark A Vagrant written by Kate Beaton and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Kate Beaton appeared on the comics scene in 2007 her cartoons have become fan favourites and gathered an enormous following, appearing in the New Yorker, Harper and the LA Times, to name but a few. Her website, Hark! A Vagrant, receives an average of 1.2 million hits a month, 500 thousand of them unique. Why? Because she's not just making silly jokes. She's making jokes about everything we learned in school, and more. Praised for their expression, intelligence and comic timing, her cartoons are best known for their wonderfully light touch on historical and literary topics. The jokes are a knowing look at history through a very modern perspective, written for every reader, and are a crusade against anyone with the idea that history is boring. It's pretty hard to argue with that when you're laughing your head off at a comic about Thucydides. They also cover whatever's on her mind that week - be it the perils of city living or the pop-cultural infiltration of Sex and the City, featuring an array of characters, from a mischievous pony, to reinvented superheroes, to a surly teen duo who could be the anti-Hardy-Boys. Perceptive, sharp and wonderfully irreverent, Hark! A Vagrant is as informative as it is hilarious, and a comic collection to treasure.
Download or read book The Sculptor written by Scott McCloud and published by First Second. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Smith is giving his life for his art—literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought, and discovering the love of his life at the 11th hour isn't making it any easier! This is a story of desire taken to the edge of reason and beyond; of the frantic, clumsy dance steps of young love; and a gorgeous, street-level portrait of the world's greatest city. It's about the small, warm, human moments of everyday life...and the great surging forces that lie just under the surface. Scott McCloud wrote the book on how comics work; now he vaults into great fiction with a breathtaking, funny, and unforgettable new work.
Download or read book The Big Fat Book of Interesting Stories Quizzical Tales for Inquisitive Minds written by Erudition Hacks and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you looking to expand your knowledge to completely random, utterly thought-provoking, thoroughly funny anecdotes? Would you like to initiate the most stimulating conversations of the evening with mind-blowing stories? With The Big Fat Book of Interesting Stories you will always have at your disposal fun facts and trivia to tease your mind and amaze your friends and family! Sink to depth of the ocean with Violet Jessop, dance in the ballet that caused a riot, and fly away in a lawn chair! Stories have the power to transport us to places and times unknown: these stories will bring you to the craziest times in history and the silliest places on earth. This is not just a compilation of dry facts; the funny and tragical, heart-melting and mind-boggling stories in this book are written with great care to details, historical context, and most importantly terrible puns! Just a few things you will discover in this book: - The funniest and most terrible little-known facts of history - Why London stank so bad in 1858 - How a baboon ran a railway - How a fashion craze was born out of tar - Contemporary nuggets: unbelievable stories that are unfolding right now! - Why you can't escape paying taxes (even during a zombie apocalypse!) - Discover the country that you can rent on Airbnb (read all about it on page 76) - The stories of heroes and villains forgotten by history - The exciting life of a pirate queen - The silly tales behind great (and not-so great) discoveries - How a bagel won a war (learn more about it on page 128) - The spy story behind the creepiest doll - The gripping adventures of the men and women who survived the most harrowing conditions - How to survive a plane crash and a sinking boat - ...and much much more! Satisfy your most unquenchable thirst for completely useless, yet totally funny tales of adventures, misfortunes, and happy accidents! What are you waiting for? Get a copy of The Big Fat Book of Interesting Stories and get ready for the wildest, oddest, funniest stories about science, history, food, animals, and much more!
Download or read book The Big Book of Knowledge written by John Farndon and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Big Fat Little Lit written by Art Spiegelman and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories presented in comic book format. Includes some games and activities.
Download or read book The Big Book of Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Big Book of Knowledge written by Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2013 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduce children to a world of learning, from Earth to space and everything in between Big Book of Knowledge, fully revised and updated, is a unique look at learning that covers pretty much anything you could hope to know about. This encyclopedia may be small in size, but it's big on information. The chunky edition crams a world of facts into 480 pages, presented in four broad chapters, which are all divided into smaller sections. Children will love learning about everything on the planet and out of it. Earth and space; the natural world (from plant life to sea life; insects to dinosaurs); the human body; how people in the past lived; the arts and entertainment; and science and technology, all brought fully up to date. Every page is packed with colourful pictures and illustrations, all fully explained with clear notes and fun facts. Big Book of Knowledge also has a full index, so tracking down subjects for school projects and homework has never been easier.
Download or read book Those Shoes written by Maribeth Boelts and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But all the kids are wearing them! Any child who has ever craved something out of reach will relate to this warm, refreshingly realistic story. Features an audio read-along. "I have dreams about those shoes. Black high-tops. Two white stripes." All Jeremy wants is a pair of those shoes, the ones everyone at school seems to be wearing. But Jeremy’s grandma tells him they don’t have room for "want," just "need," and what Jeremy needs are new boots for winter. When Jeremy’s shoes fall apart at school, and the guidance counselor gives him a hand-me-down pair, the boy is more determined than ever to have those shoes, even a thrift-shop pair that are much too small. But sore feet aren’t much fun, and Jeremy comes to realize that the things he has -- warm boots, a loving grandma, and the chance to help a friend -- are worth more than the things he wants.
Download or read book Dreadful Fates written by Tracey Turner and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a tour of the strangest deaths in the world. Who died by tripping over his own beard? Why can blowing bubbles be deadly? What are some of the most famous last words?
Download or read book The Death of Expertise written by Tom Nichols and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the early 1990s, a small group of "AIDS denialists," including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment's consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such counterintuitive challenges, but there was no evidence for Duesberg's beliefs, which turned out to be baseless. Once researchers found HIV, doctors and public health officials were able to save countless lives through measures aimed at preventing its transmission"--
Download or read book The Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science and Nature written by Stan Berenstain and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the seasons, weather, animals, plants, the earth, machines, matter, energy, and related topics.
Download or read book A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Download or read book Big Book of Knowledge written by Igloo Books and published by Igloo Books Limited. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
