Dubious Documents

Author : Nick Bantock
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9781452166032
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dubious Documents written by Nick Bantock and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the New York Times bestselling Griffin & Sabine series, Nick Bantock, whose work is collected across the globe. From the creator of the bestselling Griffin & Sabine series comes a visual puzzle book posed by a mysterious character named Magnus Berlin. Readers must study Berlin's introductory note, list of clues, and 16 multifaceted notes and envelopes to decode cryptic anagrams, pictograms, number puzzles, and wordplay. When solved, each clue reveals one word—but the rest remains a mystery. • Multiple clues to keep players guessing • Beautiful layout • A challenge for even the most advanced puzzle solvers Anyone who likes the mysteries of The Morning Star: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine is Illuminated, The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy Boxed Set will have fun with this puzzle book. • A perfect gift for anyone who likes mysteries and solving puzzles • Fans of Nick Bantock will love this mystery • Those who enjoy solving riddles will have fun solving these clues

Author : Nick Bantock
Publisher : Raincoast Books
ISBN 13 : 9781551927237
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urgent 2nd Class written by Nick Bantock and published by Raincoast Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His internationally best-selling "Griffin & Sabine" saga is treasured for its blend of lyrical storyline and compelling, imaginative art. Now Nick Bantock gives a short course in visual creativity in "Urgent 2nd Class." A tour through the techniques and materials which constitute his signature style, Bantock shares with readers numerous ways ways of using old paper ephemera -- maps, letters, postcards, ledgers, scraps, photos, and many more items -- to create their own idiosyncratic art. Written for people of all artistic skill levels, the materials mentioned are all easily found and inexpensive, and the processes are simple enough to do at home (and with access to the most advanced machinery used in the book, a photocopier). An inspirational guide to the simple artistic techniques which can alchemically transform ephemera into remarkable works, "Urgent 2nd Class" is the handbook for a new generation of visual poets.

Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781101208847
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atrocity Archives written by Charles Stross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's witty Laundry Files series. Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . .

Author : Garret P. S. Olberding
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438443919
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dubious Facts written by Garret P. S. Olberding and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were the intentions of early China's historians? Modern readers must contend with the tension between the narrators' moralizing commentary and their description of events. Although these historians had notions of evidence, it is not clear to what extent they valued what contemporary scholars would deem "hard" facts. Offering an innovative approach to premodern historical documents, Garret P. S. Olberding argues that the speeches of court advisors reveal subtle strategies of information management in the early monarchic context. Olberding focuses on those addresses concerning military campaigns where evidence would be important in guiding immediate social and political policy. His analysis reveals the sophisticated conventions that governed the imperial advisor's logic and suasion in critical state discussions, which were specifically intended to counter anticipated doubts. Dubious Facts illuminates both the decision-making processes that informed early Chinese military campaigns and the historical records that represent them.

Author : S. T. Joshi
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465016242
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Documents Of American Prejudice written by S. T. Joshi and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1968-01-21 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us know something of America's long history of racial prejudice, but it's easy to forget the extent to which explicit racism has been, until only recently, an acceptable part of public discourse, in many cases espoused by some of the country's most influential and public figures and bolstered by references to well-respected scientific, religious, and philosophical theories. In Documents of American Prejudice, S. T. Joshi provides an anthology of primary documents tracing the evolution of racial prejudice since early colonial times.In the more than 100 selections spanning more than 300 years of injustice, we hear the voices of both well-loved and reviled figures, from Thomas Jefferson to David Duke. They write about the supposed shortcomings of specific ethnic and racial groups and in defense of racist theories like Social Darwinism and eugenics. Included also are arguments against racism, which highlight a tradition of anti-racist writing in American history. Sobering, lively, infuriating, and provocative, this thoughtfully edited anthology shows us America's long and tangled history of racial prejudice and helps us understand contemporary American racism through the prism of the country's history.

Author : Nick Bantock
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811843522
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Windflower written by Nick Bantock and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promised in marriage to a man she does not love, Ana, a beautiful young dancer, flees her wedding and journeys to the exotic port of Serona in search of Felix Bulerias, a man who is supposed to have the answers she seeks.

Author : Craig Pittman
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488098719
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cat Tale written by Craig Pittman and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Garden & Gun Best Book of 2020 “Witty and passionate.” —Lauren Groff “Craig Pittman has a remarkable talent for telling stories set in the Sunshine State that never fail to fascinate and entertain.”—Gilbert King “The definitive book on one of America’s least understood apex predators. The story of how Florida’s panthers were saved from extinction is one that both deserves and needs to be told.” —Dane Huckelbridge The captivating tale of the Florida panther, its survival and rescue from extinction With novelistic detail and an eye for the absurd, Craig Pittman recounts the extraordinary story of the people who brought the panther back from the brink of extinction, the ones who nearly pushed the species over the edge, and the cats that were caught in the middle. This being Florida, there's more than a little weirdness, too. An engrossing narrative of wry humor, sharp writing and exhaustive reportage, Cat Tale shows what it takes to bring one species back and what unexpected costs such a decision brings.

Author : Nick Bantock
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780877017882
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Griffin and Sabine written by Nick Bantock and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1991-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't miss The Pharos Gate, the final volume in the Griffin & Sabine story. Published simultaneously with the 25th-anniversary edition of Griffin & Sabine, the book finally shares what happened to the lovers. Griffin: It's good to get in touch with you at last. Could I have one of your fish postcards? I think you were right—the wine glass has more impact than the cup. –Sabine But Griffin had never met a woman named Sabine. How did she know him? How did she know his artwork? Who is she? Thus begins the strange and intriguing correspondence of Griffin and Sabine. And since each letter must be pulled from its own envelope, the reader has the delightful, forbidden sensation of reading someone else's mail. Griffin & Sabine is like no other illustrated novel: appealing to the poet and artist in everyone and sure to inspire a renaissance in the fine art of letter-writing, it tells an extraordinary story in an extraordinary way.

Author : Bradley Garrett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501188569
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bunker written by Bradley Garrett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since prehistory, bunkers have been built as protection from cataclysmic social and environmental forces, and as places of power and transformation. Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears- from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere. In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and cultural geographer Bradley Garrett explores the global and rapidly growing movement of 'prepping' for social and environmental collapse, or 'Doomsday'. From the 'dread merchants' hustling safe spaces in the American mid-West to eco-fortresses in Thailand, from geoscrapers to armoured mobile bunkers, Bunker is a brilliant, original and never less than deeply disturbing story from the frontlines of the way we live now, an illuminating reflection on our age of disquiet and dread that brings it into new, sharp focus. The bunker, Garrett shows, is all around us, in malls, airports, gated communities, the vehicles we drive. Most of all, he shows, it's in our minds.

Author : Sam Bobrick
Publisher : PSS Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780843136685
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sheldon & Mrs. Levine written by Sam Bobrick and published by PSS Adult. This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a parody of the best-selling Griffin & Sabine, an angst-ridden young man and his eccentric, meddlesome mother trade blows over his latest infatuation in a series of hilarious letters. 75,000 first printing.