Big Wheels Rolling On

Big Wheels Rolling On
Author: Paul W. J. O'Brien
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2021-05-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1664172874

“Big Wheels Rolling On” portrays many events that transpired over several decades in the author’s life, the majority as an adult. From funny things that happened to dangerous life threatening situations, the short stories contained in these pages center around real life interactions with key players that were a part of Paul’s life. A canoe trip that “went south” to a near death experience while trucking. While flying, a near miss with a flock of geese, to loneliness and fear in a serious blizzard to fighting a forest fire; it’s all here. Yet throughout his life, there is an abiding sense of happiness. Life has been good to Paul, and it shows up in “spades.” You will enjoy his sense of humor yet feel the depth of the challenges that faced him, which could be and often were just around the next corner.

Lil' D's Adventures

Lil' D's Adventures
Author: GL Lindy
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2024-09-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

Tag along with Lil’ D on his many adventures as he meets new friends and leads them to 444 Safe Haven just in time for the Cat Jubilee! Lil’ D’s Adventures is a fun-filled story packed with important life lessons and colorful characters you won’t soon forget, including Willy-Nilly, Hum-dinger, Tucker, LeRoy, Penny, Fly- and of course, Lil’ D himself, the cat with a heart of gold and the patience of a saint who is always a good friend.

What Do Wheels Do All Day?

What Do Wheels Do All Day?
Author: April Jones Prince
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780618563074

The weels push, race, stroll, fly, whiz, and spin all day long.

Adhocism, expanded and updated edition

Adhocism, expanded and updated edition
Author: Charles Jencks
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2013-05-24
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0262518449

The triumphant return of a book that gave us permission to throw out the rulebook, in activities ranging from play to architecture to revolution. When this book first appeared in 1972, it was part of the spirit that would define a new architecture and design era—a new way of thinking ready to move beyond the purist doctrines and formal models of modernism. Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver's book was a manifesto for a generation that took pleasure in doing things ad hoc, using materials at hand to solve real-world problems. The implications were subversive. Turned-off citizens of the 1970s immediately adopted the book as a DIY guide. The word “adhocism” entered the vocabulary, the concept of adhocism became part of the designer's toolkit, and Adhocism became a cult classic. Now Adhocism is available again, with new texts by Jencks and Silver reflecting on the past forty years of adhocism and new illustrations demonstrating adhocism's continuing relevance. Adhocism has always been around. (Think Robinson Crusoe, making a raft and then a shelter from the wreck of his ship.) As a design principle, adhocism starts with everyday improvisations: a bottle as a candleholder, a dictionary as a doorstop, a tractor seat on wheels as a dining room chair. But it is also an undeveloped force within the way we approach almost every activity, from play to architecture to city planning to political revolution. Engagingly written, filled with pictures and examples from areas as diverse as auto mechanics and biology, Adhocism urges us to pay less attention to the rulebook and more to the real principle of how we actually do things. It declares that problems are not necessarily solved in a genius's “eureka!” moment but by trial and error, adjustment and readjustment.

Popular Science

Popular Science
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1965-02
Genre:
ISBN:

Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

The Rotarian

The Rotarian
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1981-03
Genre:
ISBN:

Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.

From the Shadows of My Smile

From the Shadows of My Smile
Author: Michael Duane Small
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2011-08-23
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1105017257

You are about to learn from a veteran and true patriot about this county's needs. Embark on a journey you will not forget through the recesses of his mind of what you can see around the world and through myths and legends. On his travels as a truck driver, find out some of his personal moments. Gain knowledge of social and economic crisis from a man who has diligently studied politics. It is most remarkable what you will find within the pages of this book. Michael gives many comments to bring himself personally to the reader. This is not just another poetry book. This is a lesson you will definitely not soon forget.

The Hacker and the Ants

The Hacker and the Ants
Author: Rudy Rucker
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2009-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0786750340

This cyberpunk adventure from Philip K. Dick award-winner, Rudy Rucker, reads like a ripped-from-Reddit romp of white hat hacking, artificial intelligence. run amok, and an unstoppable electronic 'bugs.'From a two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick award, and one of the founding fathers of cyberpunk comes a novel about a very modern nightmare: the most destructive computer virus ever has been traced to your machine. Computer programmer Jerzy Rugby spends his days blissfully hacking away in cyberspace - aiding the GoMotion Corporation in its noble quest to create intelligent robots. Then an electronic ant gets into the machinery ... then more ants .... then millions and millions of the nasty viral pests appear out of nowhere to wreak havoc throughout the Net. And suddenly Jerzy Rugby is Public Enemy Number One, wanted for sabotage, computer crime, and treason - a patsy who must now get to the bottom of the virtual insectile plague. "Rudy Rucker warms the cockles of my heart ... I think of him as the Scarlet Pimpernel of science fiction." - Philip Jose Farmer

Big Farmer

Big Farmer
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1936
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN: