Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions

Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions
Author: Brett Warnock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2003
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Edited by Brett Warnock and Robert Goodin, this issue of Top Shelf includes Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's banned DC Comics "Cobweb" story; a Peanuts tribute featuring Chris Ware, Seth, and a host of other cartoonists; a brand new section by the Swiss avant-garde cartoonist collective Arta Bile; an excerpt of a graphic novel by Martin Tom Dieck; new contributions by the entire Robot Publishing gang (a group of professional animators led by Robert Goodin who make amazing comics); an interview with David Chelsea that includes a portfolio; and new strips by Steve Weissman, James Kochalka, Matt Madden, James Sturm, Mack White, and many more!

Just Because

Just Because
Author: Mac Barnett
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1536215341

Curious minds are rewarded with curious answers in a fantastical bedtime book by Mac Barnett and Isabelle Arsenault. Why is the ocean blue? What is the rain? What happened to the dinosaurs? It might be time for bed, but one child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep just yet. Little ones and their parents will be charmed and delighted as a patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child’s nighttime wonderings. Any child who has ever asked “Why?” — and any parent who has attempted an explanation — will recognize themselves in this sweet storybook for dreamers who are looking for answers beyond “Just because.”

What's Up Down There?

What's Up Down There?
Author: Lissa Rankin
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2010-09-28
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1429943319

In this funny, outrageous and empowering book, Dr. Lissa Rankin answers all the secret gynecological questions that most women wonder about, but have always been afraid to ask. Suppose you had a wise, warm, funny best friend-who just happened to be a gynecologist. You're out with the girls for cocktails and the conversation turns to sex, and then to girly parts. One by one, you start asking her all the questions you've secretly wondered about-and discover that you have a lot in common. If you were to write those questions down, then you'd have What's Up Down There?, a life-changing little book that answers: - Do old ladies have saggy vaginas? - How do male gynecologists have a sex life without feeling like they're stuck at the office? - Is it normal for your inner labia to hang out of your outer labia? - Can the baby feel its mom having sex during pregnancy? - How common is it for one's boobs to be two totally different sizes? And so much more! As outrageously funny as it is empowering, this book reveals how to love yourself and your body-and will have you recommending it to every woman you know. From off-the wall sex questions to serious topics of women's sexual health, What's Up Down There? provides answers to women of all ages and stages.

What If?

What If?
Author: Randall Munroe
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0544272994

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have an enormous, dedicated following, as do his deeply researched answers to his fans' strangest questions. The queries he receives range from merely odd to downright diabolical: - What if I took a swim in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool? - Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns? - What if a Richter 15 earthquake hit New York City? - Are fire tornadoes possible? His responses are masterpieces of clarity and wit, gleefully and accurately explaining everything from the relativistic effects of a baseball pitched at near the speed of light to the many horrible ways you could die while building a periodic table out of all the actual elements. The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? is an informative feast for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.

Books for Living

Books for Living
Author: Will Schwalbe
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0804172757

From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. "[A] gift, and one that keeps giving.” —USA Today For Will Schwalbe, reading is a way to entertain himself but also to make sense of the world, and to find the answers to life’s questions big and small. In each chapter, he discusses a particular book and how it relates to concerns we all share. These books span centuries and genres—from Stuart Little to The Girl on the Train, from David Copperfield to Wonder, from Giovanni's Room to Rebecca, and from 1984 to Gifts from the Sea. Throughout, Schwalbe tells stories from his life and focuses on the way certain books can help us honor those we've loved and lost, and also figure out how to live each day more fully.

Start with Why

Start with Why
Author: Simon Sinek
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011-12-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1591846447

The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHY Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time—with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the WHY of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever. START WITH WHY asks (and answers) the questions: why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers had little in common, but they all started with WHY. They realized that people won't truly buy into a product, service, movement, or idea until they understand the WHY behind it. START WITH WHY shows that the leaders who have had the greatest influence in the world all think, act and communicate the same way—and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.

Ask

Ask
Author: Ryan Levesque
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2019-07-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1401958796

The go-to guide for small-business owners and entrepreneurs to discover exactly what consumers want to buy and how to get it to them. As a small-business owner, entrepreneur, or marketer, are you absolutely certain that you know what your customer wants? And even if you know what your customer wants, are you sure that you are able to clearly communicate that you offer the exact thing that they are seeking? In this best-selling book, Ryan Levesque lays out his proven, repeatable, yet slightly counterintuitive, methodology for understanding the core wants and motivations of your customer. Levesque's Ask Method provides a way to discover what customers want to buy by guiding them through a series of questions and customizing a solution from them so they are more likely to purchase from you. And all through a completely automated process that does not require one-on-one conversations with every single customer. The Ask method has generated over $100 million in online sales across 23 different industries and counting. Now it is your turn to use it to create a funnel, skyrocket your online income, and create a mass of dedicated fans for you and your company in the process.

Questions You Should Be Asking Yourself

Questions You Should Be Asking Yourself
Author: Mike Jones
Publisher: Panoma Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-04-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781784529079

We lead busy lives, without stopping to consider what we're doing and why we're doing it. Add how we're doing it and who we're doing it with and it creates a world of questions - questions that you'd benefit from finding the answer to. There are 52 questions that will get you thinking and taking action, and only you can answer them.

Magic Words

Magic Words
Author: Lance Parkin
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2013-12-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1781310777

Moore's graphic novels have inspired a number of Hollywood adaptations, including V for Vendetta, Watchmen and From Hell.