| Author | : Barry Lyga |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 421 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0547076347 |
In his follow-up to "The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl," Lyga delivers a disturbing, ripped-from-the-headlines novel about a seventh-grade boy who has a very adult relationship with his female teacher.
| Author | : Patrice Farameh |
| Publisher | : Editions Tectum |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Luxuries |
| ISBN | : 9789076886329 |
Highly customized accessories, esthetic electronics and extraordinary engines are presented in over 400 pages of this beautifully illustrated book. From private submarines to diamond-encased USB sticks and MP3 players, the highly personalized characteristics of each object is what gives it that luxury aura. The Most unique luxury products created exclusively for those status-seeking consumers where money is no object are showcased in this stunning book.
| Author | : Sonya Hartnett |
| Publisher | : Penguin Group Australia |
| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 2013-11-20 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1743483252 |
Best-selling author Sonya Hartnett writes a beautiful children's fable about love and acceptance, suitable for children 4 and older. One day a man invented the best toy in the world. He gave the toy to his son. The boy thought the toy was marvellous. It could do anything! But as time passed, the boy started to wonder about the toy. Was it really the best toy in the world?
| Author | : Thomas W. Holland |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
| ISBN | : |
If you're like most of us, the mailman's annual delivery of Sears, Roebuck and Company's Christmas Catalog was a holiday event in years past. Most American children watched the mailbox carefully for those wondrous old catalogs. They were chock full of childhood fantasies... enough toys, dolls, trains and bikes to make any kid start writing his or her letter to Santa Claus. That's probably why the nickname "Wishbook" stuck. And if you grew up during the Baby Boomer years of the Fifties and Sixties, there's big news. Those lost Wishbook pages full of wonderful toys targeted to boys have been reproduced in Boys' Toys, an exciting new book containing authorized reproductions of the very best boy-toy pages from 1950 through 1969. Boys' Toys and its companion book Girls' Toys are two in a series of Sears catalog re-issues covering the spectrum of toys, dolls and other popular collectibles of the Fifties and Sixties. This 8 fi x 11 softcover book's 192 pages illustrate hundreds of now-collectible toys. All the best are represented: Lionel trains, Marx playsets, Remco's "Toys for Boys" G.I. Joe, Matchbox cars, Tonka trucks... all the way to Sixties space-age robots, rockets, and flying saucers! Included too, is a year-by-year commentary on the toys, their manufacturers and historical relevance. So put on your Davy Crockett coonskin cap and settle in for hours of fond childhood memories. Boys' Toys is fun reading for anyone... male or female... toy fan or not. It's an invaluable reference source for serious collectors and history buffs, too. -- Jam-packed with warm and happy childhood memories. Hundreds of photographs and illustrations with accompanying commentary -- A "must have"reference volume for all toy, antique and memorabilia enthusiasts
| Author | : Beverly Lyon Clark |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2000-10-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780801865268 |
No previous collection of criticism has focused on gender in the broad range of children's literature. No previous collection has embraced both children's literature and material culture. Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet bring together twenty-two scholars to look closely at the complexities of children's culture. Girls, Boys, Books, Toys asks questions about how the gender symbolism of children's culture is constructed and resisted. What happens when women rewrite (or illustrate) nursery rhymes, adventure stories, and fairy tales told by men? How do the socially scripted plots for boys and girls change through time and across cultures? Have critics been blind to what women write about "masculine" topics? Can animal tales or doll stories displace tired commonplaces about gender, race, and class? Can different critical approaches—new historicism, narratology, or postcolonialism—enable us to gain leverage on the different implications of gender, age, race, and class in our readings of children's books and children's culture?
| Author | : Bruce Watson |
| Publisher | : Penguin Group |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780142003534 |
The story of the man who invented the Erector Set.C. Gilbert was all of these, but he made his name by refusing to grow up.
| Author | : Nicola Marsh |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020-11-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 059319862X |
A woman ready to give up on love meets her match in a man she never expected to fall for in this heartwarming and steamy new romantic comedy by USA Today bestselling author Nicola Marsh. For almost a decade, successful 37-year-old Samira Broderick has used her bustling LA practice as an excuse to avoid a trip home to Australia. She still resents her meddling Indian mother for arranging her marriage to a man who didn't stick around when the going got tough, but now with a new job Down Under, she's finally ready to reconnect with her. And while she's there, a hot international fling might be just what she needs to get out of her recent funk. Aussie stuntman, Rory Radcliffe, has been hiding his stutter for years by avoiding speaking roles. When a job he can't refuse comes up as a reality show host, he knows he'll need some help for the audition: a dialect coach. But he finds himself at a loss for words when he discovers it's the same sexy woman with whom he just had a mind-blowing one-night stand... Samira can think of many reasons why Rory is completely wrong for her: he's ten years her junior, for one, and he's not Indian--something Samira's mother would never approve of. Even if things were to get serious, there's no reason to tell her mother...is there?
| Author | : Bill Adler |
| Publisher | : AMACOM |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2006-12-11 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 0814429734 |
The key to understanding men is in understanding how they relate to their gadgets. Just because they may seem to show more interest in their computers...or their remote controls...or their fancy watches or their power mowers or their stereos...doesn't mean that their toys are really the most important things in their life. In Boys and Their Toys, bestselling author Bill Adler, Jr. explains how men use toys to assert their independence and freedom, relieve stress, connect to their lost childhood, and even express their nurturing side (without having to admit it). Written in Adler's fun, humorous style, the book reveals how women can: * learn how a man's interest in particular ""toys"" can be used to predict his behavior * know when a guy's passion for gadgets crosses the line into obsession and what to do about it * take advantage of the human-gadget relationship to improve the human-human relationship. Smart and funny, Boys and Their Toys helps readers understand what makes their men tick...and grow closer with them in the process.
