Download or read book Totally Awesome 80s written by Matthew Rettenmund and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-10-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first pop reference book to capture the spirit of the 80s experience, Totally Awesome 80s chronicles not only pop music but also the faces, places, fads, fashions, movies, television shows, toys, and videos that defined the "Greed Decade". From skinny ties to Valspeak to the birth of MTV, no 80s cultural trend is overlooked in this comprehensive tribute to all things 80s. 300 photos.

Download or read book The Totally Awesome 80s TV Trivia Book written by Michael Craig and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Totally Awesome 80s TV Trivia Book! If you ever uttered the phrases "Kiss My Grits", "I Pity the Fool", "Well, Isn't That Special?" or "Whatchutalkin'bout?", then this is the perfect book for you! Take a trip back to the real Golden Age of Television: the 1980s! Do You Remember: Who shot J.R.? What was the name of the only female Smurf? What planet was Mork from originally? What was the name of the car on Knight Rider? If you can answer these questions, see how much more useless trivia you remember from the Reagan Era. So, grab your No. 2 pencils, gather around a group of your friends and have a Totally Awesome good time travelling back to the coolest decade of all: the 1980s! Who said watching television never taught you anything?

Download or read book The Totally Awesome 80s Pop Music Trivia Book written by Michael-Dante Craig and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-02-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Totally Awesome 80s! If you can name all the members of Duran Duran, lip synch with perfection to a song by Milli Vanilli, or out-dance Madonna in her “Lucky Star” music video, then this is the perfect book for you! It’s all here, from a-ha to ZZ Top. So, slip on your leg warmers or your “Frankie Says Relax” shirt, open a can of New Coke, and put on a Culture Club CD, it’s time to take a trip back to the Wild and Wacky 80s, the most totally awesome decade of all time! Open up this book and you’re sure to have a gnarly good time!!!

Download or read book Totally Awesome written by Andrew Farago and published by Insight Editions. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Totally Awesome: The Greatest Cartoons of the Eighties is the ultimate guide to '80s cartoon nostalgia, featuring the art, toys, and inside story behind icons like He-Man, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joe, and the Thundercats. For an entire generation of kids weaned on the intoxicating excitement of eighties cartoons, the decade can be summed up with two words: Totally Awesome! With a thriving Saturday morning network schedule, a full complement of weekday syndicated programming, and the removal of guidelines that prevented cartoons from being based on toys, the 1980s enjoyed an unprecedented TV animation boom that made household names of a host of colorful characters. From He-Man and the Masters of the Universe to The Transformers, G.I. Joe, and The Muppet Babies, eighties cartoons would have such a huge impact on an entire generation that decades later they have become pop culture touchstones, revered by fans whose young minds were blown by their vivid visuals and snappy storytelling. In this deluxe book, Andrew Farago, a respected cartoon historian and child of the eighties, provides an inside look at the history of the most popular cartoons of the decade, as told by the writers, animators, voice actors, and other creative talents who brought life to some of the era’s most enduring animated shows. Also featuring Thundercats, Inspector Gadget, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and many more cartoon classics, Totally Awesome is a treasure trove of eighties animation nostalgia that will take fans back to a time of unlimited imagination and unparalleled adventure.

Download or read book The Awesome 80s Prom written by Ken Davenport and published by Samuel French , Incorporated. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Conceived and originally directed by Ken Davenport."

Download or read book What 80s Pop Culture Teaches Us About Today s Workplace 10 More Iconic Movies Even More Totally Awesome Business Lessons written by Chris Clews and published by Silver Tree Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oh, Carol Anne, who crooned, "They're here." Poltergeist, 1982. Perhaps you meant to say ..."It's he-ere." The sequel to the first book by Chris Clews: "What '80s Pop Culture Teaches Us About Today's Workplace: Unexpected Business Lessons from Ten of the Great '80s Movies That Defined a Generation." So where does Book #2 take us? Cue the unforgettable '80s quote: "Where we're going, we don't need roads." (Back to the Future, 1985.) So, are '80s movies really imbued with timeless lessons for business leaders? Yes! The era of parachute pants, Members Only jackets and padded shoulders also brought us the same creative indulgence for the workplace in the form of bigger business lessons, bigger budgets, and anything-goes totally radical marketing. And the practical, evergreen lessons for businesses of all kinds? They're timeless.Discover relatable, unique and fun workplace lessons with a side of nostalgia. You'll never look at these movies the same. Here are a few examples:The Outsiders -- When the chips are down, it's more important than ever to make the right decisions and "Stay Gold."The Princess Bride -- How to drop the "As you wish" mentality.Caddyshack -- Learn how to "Be the ball" in business.Fast Times at Ridgemont High -- Why it's okay to say, "I don't know."The Lost Boys -- Reject your workplace vampires.Coming to America -- "When you think of garbage, think of Akeem." Translated for the workplace? Earn your leadership.Better Off Dead -- Being successful requires that you "Get out over your skis" and hit that mountain as fast as you can.Weird Science -- It takes a bit of crazy to continue to move the business world forward.Ghostbusters -- It's true! Strapping an unlicensed nuclear reactor on your back makes you less risk-averse.The Karate Kid -- "Don't forget to breathe. Very important" is perhaps the greatest business advice of all time. In other words, you surely don't want to lose your sh!t when it hits the fan.

Download or read book Totally Coloring the 80 s Adult Coloring Book written by Flashback Print Flashback Print Press and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-05 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Totally Coloring the 80's Adult Coloring Book will be great way to relax and relieve stress for anyone who grew up in or is a fan of the 80's. Step away from your phone/computer/television and spend some time having a good laugh while you apply your impressive coloring skills to these amazing illustrations from the 1980's decade. The coloring pages include everything from roller skates, scrunchies, boomboxes, cassette tapes, fanny packs and much more! Each illustration is printed on a single sided sheet to prevent bleed through no matter what coloring tool you decide to use!

Download or read book VHS Video Cover Art written by Thomas Hodge and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video cover art is a unique and largely lost artform representing a period of unabashed creativity during the video rental boom of the 1980s to early 1990s. The art explodes with a succulent, indulgent blend of design, illustration, typography, and hilarious copywriting. Written and curated by Tom "The Dude Designs" Hodge, poster artist extraordinaire and VHS obsessive, with a foreword by Mondo's Justin Ishmael, this collection contains over 240 full-scale, complete video sleeves in the genres of action, comedy, horror, kids, sci-fi, and thriller films. It's a world of mustached, muscled men, buxom beauties, big explosions, phallic guns, and nightmare-inducing monsters. From the sublime to the ridiculous, some are incredible works of art, some are insane, and some capture the tone of the films better than the films themselves. All are amazing and inspiring works of art that captivate the imagination. It's like stepping back in time into your local video store!

Download or read book Paperback Crush written by Gabrielle Moss and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of vintage YA, a humorous and in-depth history of beloved teen literature from the 1980s and 1990s, full of trivia and pop culture fun. Those pink covers. That flimsy paper. The nonstop series installments that hooked readers throughout their entire adolescence. These were not the serious-issue novels of the 1970s, nor the blockbuster YA trilogies that arrived in the 2000s. Nestled in between were the girl-centric teen books of the ’80s and ’90s—short, cheap, and utterly adored. In Paperback Crush, author Gabrielle Moss explores the history of this genre with affection and humor, highlighting the best-known series along with their many diverse knockoffs. From friendship clubs and school newspapers to pesky siblings and glamorous beauty queens, these stories feature girl protagonists in all their glory. Journey back to your younger days, a time of girl power nourished by sustained silent reading. Let Paperback Crush lead you on a visual tour of nostalgia-inducing book covers from the library stacks of the past.

Download or read book 80s written by Jim Heimann and published by Taschen America Llc. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial tour of advertisements from the nineteen eighties provides a colorful look at the decade.

Download or read book Everything I Thought I Knew written by Shannon Takaoka and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage girl wonders if she's inherited more than just a heart from her donor in this compulsively readable debut. Seventeen-year-old Chloe had a plan: work hard, get good grades, and attend a top-tier college. But after she collapses during cross-country practice and is told that she needs a new heart, all her careful preparations are laid to waste. Eight months after her transplant, everything is different. Stuck in summer school with the underachievers, all she wants to do now is grab her surfboard and hit the waves--which is strange, because she wasn't interested in surfing before her transplant. (It doesn't hurt that her instructor, Kai, is seriously good-looking.) And that's not all that's strange. There's also the vivid recurring nightmare about crashing a motorcycle in a tunnel and memories of people and places she doesn't recognize. Is there something wrong with her head now, too, or is there another explanation for what she's experiencing? As she searches for answers, and as her attraction to Kai intensifies, what she learns will lead her to question everything she thought she knew--about life, death, love, identity, and the true nature of reality.

Download or read book The Great Book of 1980s Trivia written by Bill O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a fantastical journey through the 1980s, as we uncover every riveting storyline that dominated the "decedent decade." Revisit, or explore for the first time, the big stories and the forgotten facts of ten fast-paced years that would reshape the world, and lay the foundation for the way we live today.Discover the events that gripped the world through hijackings, bombings, and hostage standoffs, during a decade dominated by international terrorism. Read the stories of serial killers on the run, and military battles that transformed continents.Follow Madonna and Michael Jackson as they took their awe-inspiring acts to the top of the charts, surrounded by a new MTV culture.Take a joyride through a new age of cinema dominated by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and their endearing heroes. Go to battle with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, and find out how Meryl Streep mesmerized audiences with six Oscar-nominated performances.You will also find the answers to the following questions:- Why did President Reagan's would-be assassin put a bullet in his chest, and what "affair" discredited Reagan's administration?- What prompted First Lady Nancy Reagan to ask America to "Just Say No."- What catastrophic event sidelined the U.S. Space program?- What toys and video games made every child's wish list?- Why did Time magazine stray from their annual "Person of the Year" to award the "Machine of the Year", and how did Bill Gates and Steve Jobs become international icons?- How did Oprah and Geraldo Rivera build a daytime talk show empire?- What made Bill Cosby a national icon and America's dad, long before the sex scandal that would completely derail him?

Download or read book The Comic Book Story of Video Games written by Jonathan Hennessey and published by Ten Speed Graphic. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete, illustrated history of video games--highlighting the machines, games, and people who have made gaming a worldwide, billion-dollar industry/artform--told in a graphic novel format. Author Jonathan Hennessey and illustrator Jack McGowan present the first full-color, chronological origin story for this hugely successful, omnipresent artform and business. Hennessey provides readers with everything they need to know about video games--from their early beginnings during World War II to the emergence of arcade games in the 1970s to the rise of Nintendo to today's app-based games like Angry Birds and Pokemon Go. Hennessey and McGowan also analyze the evolution of gaming as an artform and its impact on society. Each chapter features spotlights on major players in the development of games and gaming that contains everything that gamers and non-gamers alike need to understand and appreciate this incredible phenomenon.

Download or read book Mad World written by Lori Majewski and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “hugely entertaining” history of the 1980s New Wave music scene told through new interviews with its biggest artists (Rolling Stone). Mad World is a compelling oral history that celebrates the New Wave music phenomenon of the 1980s via new interviews with 35 of the most notable artists of the period. Each chapter begins with a discussion of their most popular song and leads to stories of their history and place in the scene, ultimately painting a vivid picture of this colorful, idiosyncratic time. Mixtape suggestions, fashion sidebars, and quotes from famous contemporary admirers help fill out the fun. Participants include members of Duran Duran, New Order, The Smiths, Tears for Fears, Adam Ant, Echo, and the Bunnymen, Devo, ABC, Spandau Ballet, A Flock of Seagulls, Thompson Twins, INXS, and more. “One addictive chapter after another.” —Rob Sheffield, author of Talking to Girls About Duran Duran “Tells the tale of some of the decade’s most unforgettable songs . . . in fascinating detail, letting the architects of these memorable records shine a light on how the sound of a generation came to be.” —The Hollywood Reporter “The new wave era is often dismissed for its one-hit wonders and silly haircuts, but [Mad World] examines the period with a great deal of love and reverence.” —Buzzfeed “A really informative and insightful read.” —People

Download or read book Like Totally 80 s Adult Coloring Book written by Dani Kates and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eighties themed best selling adult coloring book is great for anyone who grew up in or appreciates the 80s. This book is filled with meticulously designed illustrations of your favorite accessories, fashions, trends, and games from the 1980's decade. The coloring pages include everything from leggings and scrunched socks, to roller skates, hair crimpers, teasing combs, VHS and cassette tapes to those totally awesome oily stickers, the folded fortunes, candy watches, lunch boxes, phones with cords, and SO MUCH MORE! Featuring 26 unique and creative designs, printed on single sides, and ranging in complexity from to simple to advanced, this coloring book will provide hours and hours of stress relief, mindful calm, and fun, creative expression for adults, teens, tweens and older children.

Download or read book Remember When written by T. Torrest and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of two teenagers who attended the same school in the 1990's. One becomes a famous movie star.

Download or read book Totally 90s Coloring Book written by Christina Haberkern and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where everything '90s is back, from fanny packs and scrunchies to VHS tapes, Totally '90s Coloring Book offers the perfect combination of nostalgia and coloring fun, together in a hilarious and giftable package from the creator of the popular gift-item and stationery brand Hello Harlot. Have you rewatched Clueless lately? Reminisced about the cool clear telephone you had in middle school, or tried to buy a vintage Furby on Ebay? If so, this is the coloring book for you! Perfect for anyone who loves coloring to take them to another world (and time!), this coloring book features pop-culture memories like the Spice Girls; illustrations inspired by classic TV shows like Full House, Family Matters, and Saved by the Bell; memorable trends like Trapper Keepers, Caboodles, and mix CDs; and nostalgia-inspired fashion like butterfly clips, Rollerblades, jelly sandals, and snap bracelets.