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Author | : Melissa Louise Jones |
Publisher | : Capital Books |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781931868853 |
A collection of superlative facts about the U.S. includes the biggest tricycle, sunniest city, fastest glacier, most secure prison, biggest ball of twine, largest door, smallest church, and more.
Author | : Melissa Louise Jones |
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Genre | : Curiosities and wonders |
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Author | : John Vorwald |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 2007-06-05 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0764587765 |
Roadtripping across the country has been a rite of passage for generations. From Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady’s On the Road, to Easy Rider to Thelma and Louise, the journey is the destination, and in Frommer’s MTV US Roadtrips, the old school travel guides and cutting edge authors combine their talents and resources for 10 eclectic rides. Maya Kroth pursues the ‘cue from Austin to Charlotte in a Southern BBQ Roadtrip Ethan Wolff visits the Desert Southwest, on the trail of the first Americans Ashley Marinaccio stays at haunted hotels in search of the unexplained and paranormal, in the Weird Northeast. Our other authors go everywhere from Down the Shore, through the Urban Heartland, and on a tour of West Coast Underground Rock Clubs.
Author | : Kristin G. Congdon |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 789 |
Release | : 2012-03-19 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0313349371 |
Folk art is as varied as it is indicative of person and place, informed by innovation and grounded in cultural context. The variety and versatility of 300 American folk artists is captured in this collection of informative and thoroughly engaging essays. American Folk Art: A Regional Reference offers a collection of fascinating essays on the life and work of 300 individual artists. Some of the men and women profiled in these two volumes are well known, while others are important practitioners who have yet to receive the notice they merit. Because many of the artists in both categories have a clear identity with their land and culture, the work is organized by geographical region and includes an essay on each region to help make connections visible. There is also an introductory essay on U.S. folk art as a whole. Those writing about folk art to date tend to view each artist as either traditional or innovative. One of the major contributions of this work is that it demonstrates that folk artists more often exhibit both traits; they are grounded in their cultural context and creative in the way they make work their own. Such insights expand the study of folk art even as they readjust readers' understanding of who folk artists are.
Author | : Joseph W. Lewis Jr. M.D. |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2020-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1665503394 |
Amazing Alabama: A Potpourri of Fascinating Facts, Tall Tales and Storied Stories chronicles a brief history of the state, famous personages associated with Alabama, a discussion of state firsts, unique occurrences, antiquated laws and other fascinating topics.
Author | : Editors of Portable Press |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2023-06-20 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1667201158 |
Strangeness abounds in every corner of the United States—read all about it in this entertaining compendium of real-life stories! Americans may think of themselves as the most normal people in the world, but that assumption will be turned on its head when you dig into the contents of Strange USA. From political scandals and dumb crooks to oddball roadside attractions and the history of Florida Man, the country is teeming with weirdness in all 50 states. Dozens of the most amusing and entertaining articles from previous Bathroom Readers about the strange goings-on in the land of the free and the home of the brave—plus 40 new pages—will keep you turning the pages for hours.
Author | : MATTHEW D. LAPLANTE |
Publisher | : BenBella Books |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2019-04-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1948836211 |
2019 Foreword Indie Silver Award Winner for Science Welcome to the biggest, fastest, deadliest science book you'll ever read. The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery. The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change. The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms. For a long time, scientists ignored superlative life forms as outliers. Increasingly, though, researchers are coming to see great value in studying plants and animals that exist on the outermost edges of the bell curve. As it turns out, there's a lot of value in paying close attention to the "oddballs" nature has to offer. Go for a swim with a ghost shark, the slowest-evolving creature known to humankind, which is teaching us new ways to think about immunity. Get to know the axolotl, which has the longest-known genome and may hold the secret to cellular regeneration. Learn about Monorhaphis chuni, the oldest discovered animal, which is providing insights into the connection between our terrestrial and aquatic worlds. Superlative is the story of extreme evolution, and what we can learn from it about ourselves, our planet, and the cosmos. It's a tale of crazy-fast cheetahs and super-strong beetles, of microbacteria and enormous plants, of whip-smart dolphins and killer snakes. This book will inspire you to change the way you think about the world and your relationship to everything in it.
Author | : Arthur Plotnik |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2011-07-12 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1573446815 |
A veritable "tko of terminology," Better Than Great is the essential guide for describing the extraordinary — the must have reference for anyone wishing to rise above tired superlatives. Deft praise encourages others to feel as we do, share our enthusiasms. It rewards deserving objects of admiration. It persuades people to take certain actions. It sells things. Sadly, in this "age of awesome," our words and phrases of acclaim are exhausted, all but impotent. Even so, we find ourselves defaulting to such habitual choices as good, great, and terrific, or substitute the weary synonyms that tuble our of a thesaurus — superb, marvelous, outstanding, and the like. The piling on of intensifers such as the now-silly "super," only makes matters worse and negative modifiers render our common parlance nearly tragic. Until now. Arthur Plotnik, the wunderkind of word-wonks is, without mincing, proffering a well knit wellspring of worthy and wondrous words to rescue our worn-down usage. Plotnik is both hella AND hecka up to the task of rescuing the English language and offers readers the chance to never be at a loss for words!
Author | : John Chabot |
Publisher | : Virgil, Ont. : Full Blast Productions |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : English language Textbooks for second language learners |
ISBN | : 9781895451276 |
This is a fifty unit reproducible reading and discussion text. The articles are short and written at a beginner level. The articles are complemented by a variety of exercises, with attention paid to the different skill areas. With its focus on Americana, this is a great place for students to begin learning about this great nation.
Author | : Jennifer Echols |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2015-08-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1442474521 |
"Sawyer and Kaye fall in love despite hating each other"--