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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Unabridged Classics)»rank: 32978by: Mark J. Twain
: :Mark Twain’s brilliant 19th-century novel has long been recognized as one of the finest examples of American literature. It brings back the irrepressible and free-spirited Huck, first introduced in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and puts him center stage. Rich in authentic dialect, folksy humor, and sharp social commentary, Twain’s classic tale follows Huck and the runaway slave Jim on an exciting journey down the Mississippi. Review:Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, ... |
Understanding Comics»rank: 923564by: Scott McCloud
: :Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning. Review:A comic book about comic books. McCloud, in an incredibly accessible style, explains the details of how comics work: how they're composed, read and understood. More than just a book about comics, this gets to the heart of how we deal with visual languages in general. 'The potential of comics is limitless and exciting!' writes McCloud. This should be required reading for every school teacher. Pulitzer Prize-winner Art Spiegelman says, 'The most intelligent comics I've seen in ... |
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Lonely Planet Mexico (Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit)»rank: 2522162by: Tom Brosnahan, John Noble, Nancy Keller, Mark Balla, Scott Wayne
: :A guide to traveling in Mexico features information on lodging, food, artwork, history, landscape, and more. Original. Review:Initially specializing in Asia guidebooks, the Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit series has long been a favorite of budget travelers all over the globe. Lonely Planet guides have a reputation for plainspoken and practical advice as well as thoughtful writing about history and culture, and Lonely Planet Mexico is no exception. Complementing the information about sights, accommodations, and food are extensive background notes about each region's notable past and present characteristics, from cuisine to geography to art. (Check out the full-color illustrated insert on Mexican artesanías, or handicrafts.) One note: this edition came out ... |
Roughing It (The World's Best Reading)»rank: 849602by: Mark Twain
: :In his youth Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West, working in a variety of professions. This is a record, fact and impression, of those early years. Review:There is no nicer surprise for a reader than to discover that an acknowledged classic really does deliver the goods. Mark Twain's Roughing It is just such a book. The adventure tale is a delight from start to finish and is just as engrossing today as it was 125 years ago when it first appeared. Roughing It tells the true-ish escapades of Twain in the American West. Although he clearly 'speaks with forked tongue,' Roughing It is informative as ... |
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Murakami»rank: 12498by: Takashi Murakami, Dick Hebdige, Midori Matsui, Scott Rothkopf
: :Takashi Murakami is one of contemporary art’s most innovative and important figures. Drawing from street culture, high art, and traditional Japanese painting, Murakami takes the contemporary art trend of mixing high and low to an unprecedented level (critics call him the new Warhol), producing original paintings and sculptures as well as mass-produced consumer objects such as toys, books, and most famously, a line of handbags for Louis Vuitton. A committed supporter and spokesperson for Japanese artists and a powerful commentator on postwar culture and society, Murakami has organized influential exhibitions of Japanese art as well as a biannual art fair in Tokyo. Murakami has positioned himself as a new type of artist ... |
Angel Omnibus»rank: 42204by: Peter David, Jay Faerber, Dan Jolley, Jeff Mariotte, Scott Tipton, Elena Casagrande, Bob Gill, David Messina, Nicola Scott, Mike Norton, Mark Pennington
: :Discover the Angel Omnibus, which collects the IDW's Angel: The Curse, Angel: Old Friends, Angel: Spotlight, and Angel: Auld Lang Syne. This huge collection of comics includes work by New York Times best-selling writer Peter David, and features the most popular characters from the TV show including Spike and Illyria. |
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Weird Kentucky: Your Travel Guide to Kentucky's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (Weird)»rank: 14369by: Jeffrey Scott Holland
: :'Best Travel Series of the Year 2006!'—Booklist What’s weird around here?That’s a question Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman have enjoyed asking for years—and their offbeat sense of curiosity led them to create the bestselling phenomenon, Weird N.J. Now the weirdness has spread throughout key locales in the U.S. Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don’t venture—it’s chock-full of oddball curiosities, ghostly places, local legends, crazy characters, cursed roads, and peculiar roadside attractions. What’s NOT shockingly odd here: that every previously published Weird book has become a bestseller in its region. |
Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports»rank: 3240502by: Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Williams
: :This audiobook is the window into the underground world of cheating at the highest levels, which set off a frenzy of activity and hand-wringing in the offices of Major League Baseball and Congress. Through the authors' pursuit of sources and documents, they were able to open for public view a world in which elite athletes trade money and risk their health for the edge that will allow them to run faster, hit harder, and compete longer--and then cash in on the fame and wealth that comes only to those at the very top of their games.What the compelling newspaper articles weren't able to provide is the kind of narrative and inside-baseball look ... |
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Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work (Harvard Business School Press) (Harvard Business School Press) (Harvard Business School Press) (Harvard Business School Press)»rank: 54620by: Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson, Joseph V. Sinfield, Elizabeth J. Altman
: :More than a decade ago, Clayton Christensen's breakthrough book The Innovator's Dilemma illustrated how disruptive innovations drive industry transformation and market creation. Christensen's research demonstrated how growth-seeking incumbents must develop the capability to deflect disruptive attacks and seize disruptive opportunities.In The Innovator's Guide to Growth, Scott Anthony, Mark Johnson, Joseph Sinfield, and Elizabeth Altman take the subject to the next level: implementation. The authors explain how to create this crucial capability for unlocking disruption's transformational power. With a foreword by Christensen, this book provides a set of market-proven tools and approaches to innovation that have been honed through fieldwork with innovative companies like Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Pepsi, Intel, Motorola, ... |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Classics Illustrated Notes)»rank: 2162549by: T. Scott, Mark Twain, Andrew Jay Hoffman
: :What happens when old-fashioned Yankee ingenuity meets the sorcery and superstition of King Arthur's court? Mark Twain's fantasy blends satire with rousing adventure. Full color illustrations. |