Boy Genius

Author : Carl M. Cannon
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1586483366
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boy Genius written by Carl M. Cannon and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2005-03-02 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George W. Bush calls Karl Rove "boy genius" and "the man with the plan." Insiders call him the man behind the Republican ascendancy. Who is this guy? And what is the plan?

Author : Raymond Briggs
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ug written by Raymond Briggs and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond Briggs’s funniest creation–theBoy Wonder of the Stone Age. This funny, sad, yet wonderfully life-affirming 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? Don’t you bring language like that into this cave!” He invents the wheel but doesn’t 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? Ug’s 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.

Author : Nancy Krulik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743418441
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frankie Muniz Boy Genius written by Nancy Krulik and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-02-21 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Frankie Muniz! He's the star of Malcolm in the Middle, one of the hottest shows on TV today. Frankie's fifteen, funny, and now he's famous. Here, for every fan who can't get enough of Frankie, is everything you need to know about him: how he broke into show business, what his hobbies are, where to find Frankie fan clubs on the Web, and whether his zodiac sign is compatible with yours! Extra bonus: take the all-Frankie quiz inside!

Author : Carl M. Cannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boy Genius written by Carl M. Cannon and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marc Cerasini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689845421
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius written by Marc Cerasini and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the adults of Retroville are abducted by aliens from the planet Yolkus, Jimmy Neutron and his friends set out to rescue them.

Author : Daniel Stashower
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767913213
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Genius and the Mogul written by Daniel Stashower and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-05-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world remembers Edison, Ford, and the Wright Brothers. But what about Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television, an innovation that did as much as any other to shape the twentieth century? That question lies at the heart of The Boy Genius and the Mogul, Daniel Stashower's captivating chronicle of television's true inventor, the battle he faced to capitalize on his breakthrough, and the powerful forces that resulted in the collapse of his dreams. The son of a Mormon farmer, Farnsworth was born in 1906 in a single-room log cabin on an isolated homestead in Utah. The Farnsworth family farm had no radio, no telephone, and no electricity. Yet, motivated by the stories of scientists and inventors he read about in the science magazines of the day, young Philo set his sights on becoming an inventor. By his early teens, Farnsworth had become an inveterate tinkerer, able to repair broken farm equipment when no one else could. It was inevitable that when he read an article about a new idea -- for the transmission of pictures by radio waves--that he would want to attempt it himself. One day while he was walking through a hay field, Farnsworth took note of the straight, parallel lines of the furrows and envisioned a system of scanning a visual image line by line and transmitting it to a remote screen. He soon sketched a diagram for an early television camera tube. It was 1921 and Farnsworth was only fourteen years old. Farnsworth went on to college to pursue his studies of electrical engineering but was forced to quit after two years due to the death of his father. Even so, he soon managed to persuade a group of California investors to set him up in his own research lab where, in 1927, he produced the first all-electronic television image and later patented his invention. While Farnsworth's invention was a landmark, it was also the beginning of a struggle against an immense corporate power that would consume much of his life. That corporate power was embodied by a legendary media mogul, RCA President and NBC founder David Sarnoff, who claimed that his chief scientist had invented a mechanism for television prior to Farnsworth's. Thus the boy genius and the mogul were locked in a confrontation over who would control the future of television technology and the vast fortune it represented. Farnsworth was enormously outmatched by the media baron and his army of lawyers and public relations people, and, by the 1940s, Farnsworth would be virtually forgotten as television's actual inventor, while Sarnoff and his chief scientist would receive the credit. Restoring Farnsworth to his rightful place in history, The Boy Genius and the Mogul presents a vivid portrait of a self-taught scientist whose brilliance allowed him to "capture light in a bottle." A rich and dramatic story of one man’s perseverance and the remarkable events leading up to the launch of television as we know it, The Boy Genius and the Mogul shines new light on a major turning point in American history.

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Publisher : Oni Press
ISBN 13 : 9781929998005
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius written by and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over-intelligent and unfailingly sarcastic, Barry Ween and his friend Jeremy survive a variety of bizarre adventures.

Author : Richard Due
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983886792
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book IDIOT GENIUS Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy written by Richard Due and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy is the first book in a new sci-fi polypunk series by Richard Due, author of the award-winning Moon Realm series. What¿s it about? Here¿s Willa (she's eleven):Ever wonder why some crazy scientist hasn¿t blown up the world? I used to wonder about it all the time. Actually, I was pretty sure my mom would be the one to do it.But now I know better. It turns out there¿s a force working hard to keep the world from going KABLOOEY.Who are these people? Wait for it:Idiots. Yep, you heard me right.How do I know? Well, apparently, I¿m an Idiot. At least, according to the Geniuses I am. Confused? I¿m not surprised. You¿re probably an Idiot too. It all began on a Thursday at precisely 8 a.m. I was standing in the family room of our lovely two-story house, directly across the street from Squirrel Brand Park in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The same family room that, in a few minutes, I would never ever, ever see again¿ever.

Author : Yongsoo Park
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781888451566
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Las Cucarachas written by Yongsoo Park and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life hits rock bottom for 12 year-old Peter Kim when his family's apartment gets burgled and he loses his most prized possession, an Apple computer which he bought with money saved from two years of doing the world's crummiest paper round. Undaunted, Peter tries his best to forget and move on, but, taunted by his friends and spurred on by the desire to shut them up, he reluctantly sets out to find the persom who robbed him. As his search gathers steam, he becomes increasingly convinced of the burglar's identity.

Author : Steven Banks
Publisher : Simon Spotlight
ISBN 13 : 9780689863172
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Potion written by Steven Banks and published by Simon Spotlight. This book was released on 2003-12-23 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Neutron on a fun adventure with friends.