Boom Splat

Author : William Gurstelle
Publisher : Potter Style
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780307498762

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Whoosh Boom Splat by William Gurstelle Pdf

These are the homemade machines that you’ve dreamed of building, from the high-voltage Night Lighter 36 spud gun to the Jam Jar Jet, the Marshmallow Shooter, and the Yagua Blowgun. Including detailed diagrams and supply lists, Gurstelle’s simple, step-by-step instructions help workshop warriors at any skill level achieve impressively powerful results. With Whoosh Boom Splat, you can build: - The Jam Jar Jet—the simple pulse jet engine that roars - The Elastic Zip Cannon—a membrane-powered shooter that packs a wallop - The Mechanical Toe—a bungee-powered kicking machine - The Vortex Launcher—a projectile shooter that uses air bullets for ammunition - The Clothespin Snap Shooter—the PG-17 version of a clothespin gun that fires fiery projectiles - The Architronito—the steam-powered cannon conceived by Leonardo da Vinci And many more! In addition to learning how to make these cool gadgets, you’ll find sections packed with information on what makes each machine unique. Gurstelle describes the machine’s historical origins as only he can: with verve, fun, and the sort of quirky details his legions of fans love. Whoosh Boom Splat is a must-have for every extreme tinkerer.

Author : Jim Coby,Joanna Davis-McElligatt
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496850058

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BOOM! SPLAT! by Jim Coby,Joanna Davis-McElligatt Pdf

Contributions by Lawrence Abrams, Diana Álvarez Amell, Partha Bhattacharjee, Natalja Chestopalova, Jim Coby, Rita Costello, Sam Cowling, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Elisabetta Di Minico, Kiera M. Gaswint, Vincent Haddad, Kaleb Knoblauch, Christina M. Knopf, Leah Milne, Jacob Murel, Priyanka Tripathi, and Steven S. Vrooman In 1954, the culture, distribution, and content of comics forever changed. Long a mainstay of America’s reading diet, comic books began to fall under the scrutiny of parent groups, church leaders, and politicians. The bright colors and cheaply printed pulp pages of comic books that had once provided an escape were suddenly presumed to house something lascivious, insidious, and morally corrosive. While anxieties about representations of violence in comics have largely fallen to the wayside since the moral panic of the 1950s, thematic and symbolic visual depictions of violence remain central to the comics form. BOOM! SPLAT! Comics and Violence examines violence in every iteration—physical violence enacted between people and their environments, formal and structural violence embedded in the comics language itself, representations of historical violence, and ways of reading and seeing violence. BOOM! SPLAT! is composed of fifteen essays from renowned comics scholars and is organized thematically into four sections, including an examination of histories of violence, forms of violence, modes and systems of violence, and political and social violence. Chapters focus on well-known comics and comics creators, such as Steve Ditko, Hulk, X-Men, and the Marvel universe, to newspaper cartoon strips, postwar graphic novels, revolution, civil rights, trauma, #blacklivesmatter, and more. BOOM! SPLAT! serves as a resource to scholars and comics enthusiasts who wish to contemplate and confront the permutations, forms, structures, and discourses of violence that have always animated cartoons. Through this interrogation, our understanding of violence moves beyond the immediately physical and interpersonal into modes of ephemeral, psychological, and ideological violence. Contributors fill critical gaps by offering sustained explorations of the function of manifold violences in the comics language—those seen, felt, and imagined. The essays in this collection are critically necessary for understanding the current and historical role that violence has played in comics and will help recognize how cartooning imbricates, resists, and expands our thinking about and experiences of violence.

Author : Valerie Cassel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015056304465

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Splat, Boom, Pow! by Valerie Cassel Pdf

Text by Valerie Cassel, Roger Sabin, Bernard Weldt, Marti Mayo.

Author : Stephen Sondheim
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780307593412

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Look, I Made a Hat by Stephen Sondheim Pdf

The second volume of Sondheim's collected lyrics is both a remarkable glimpse into the brilliant mind of a legend, and a continuation of the acclaimed and best-selling Finishing the Hat. Picking up where he left off in Finishing the Hat, Sondheim gives us all the lyrics, along with excluded songs and early drafts, of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins and Passion. Here, too, is an in-depth look at the evolution of Wise Guys, which subsequently was transformed into Bounce and eventually became Road Show. Sondheim takes us through his contributions to both television and film, some of which may surprise you, and covers plenty of never-before-seen material from unproduced projects as well. There are abundant anecdotes about his many collaborations, and readers are treated to rare personal material in this volume, as Sondheim includes songs culled from commissions, parodies and personal special occasions—such as a hilarious song for Leonard Bernstein’s seventieth birthday. As he did in the previous volume, Sondheim richly annotates his lyrics with invaluable advice on songwriting, discussions of theater history and the state of the industry today, and exacting dissections of his work, both the successes and the failures. Filled with even more behind-the-scenes photographs and illustrations from Sondheim’s original manuscripts, Look, I Made a Hat is fascinating, devourable and essential reading for any fan of the theater or this great man’s work.

Author : Alison Eyring
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781626568181

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Pacing for Growth by Alison Eyring Pdf

This book shows leaders how to evaluate their company's and team's current capacity for growth and identify the right capabilities and pacing strategies to increase growth steadily and sustainably. Includes physiological and psychological research, in-depth business case studies, examples from real leaders, and practical tools with her own narrative of endurance training.

Author : James F. Park
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244426897

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Wee Jimmy by James F. Park Pdf

Author : William Gurstelle
Publisher : Crown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780307510655

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Adventures from the Technology Underground by William Gurstelle Pdf

The technology underground is a thriving, humming, and often literally scintillating subculture of amateur inventors and scientific envelope-pushers who dream up, design, and build machines that whoosh, rumble, fly—and occasionally hurl pumpkins across enormous distances. In the process they astonish us with what is possible when human imagination and ingenuity meet nature’s forces and materials. William Gurstelle spent two years exploring the most fascinating outposts of this world of wonders: meeting and talking to the men and women who care far more for the laws of physics than they do for mundane matters like government regulations and their own personal safety. Adventures from the Technology Underground is Gurstelle’s lively and weirdly compelling report of his travels. In these pages we meet Frank Kosdon and others who draw the scrutiny of the FAA, ATF, and other federal agencies in their pursuit of high-power amateur rocketry, which they demonstrate to impressive—and sometimes explosive—effect at the annual LDRS gathering held in various remote and unpopulated areas (a necessary consideration since that acronym stands for Large Dangerous Rocket Ships). Here also are the underground technologists who turn up at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada high desert, including Lucy Hosking, “the engineer from Hell” and the creator of Satan’s Calliope, aka the World’s Loudest Thing, a pipe organ made from jet engines. Also at Burning Man is Austin “Dr. MegaVolt” Richard, who braves the arcing, sputtering, six-digit voltages of a giant Tesla coil in his protective metal suit. Add in a trip to see medieval-style catapults, air cannons, and supersized slingshots in action at the World Championship Punkin Chunkin competition in Sussex County, Delaware, and forays to the postapocalyptic enclaves of the flamethrower builders and the future-noir pits of the fighting robots, and you have proof positive that the age of invention is still going strong. In the world of science and engineering, despite its buttoned-down image, there’s plenty of fun, humor, and sheer wonder to be found at the fringes. Adventures from the Technology Underground takes you there. • Launch homemade high-power rockets. • Catapult pumpkins the better part of a mile. • Watch robot gladiators saw, flip, and pound one another into high-tech junk heaps. • Dazzle the eye with electrical discharges measured in the hundreds of thousands of volts. • Play with flamethrowers, potato guns, and other decidedly unsafe toys . . . If this is your idea of fun, you’ll have a major good time on this wild ride through today’s Technology Underground. From the Burning Man festival in Nevada’s high desert to the latest gathering of Large Dangerous Rocket Ship builders to Delaware’s annual Punkin Chunkin competition (a celebration of “science, radical self-expression, and beer”), you’ll meet the inspired, government-unregulated, and corporately unfettered men and women who operate at the furthest fringes of science, engineering, and wild-eyed arc welding, building the catapults, ultra-high-voltage electrical devices, incendiary artworks, fighting robots, and other machines that demonstrate what’s possible when physics meets human ingenuity.

Author : John Kolvenbach
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822224135

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Gizmo Love by John Kolvenbach Pdf

THE STORY: Locked in an office by an unseen producer, Hollywood veteran Manny McCain takes on the assignment of his life: to shape the sloppy opus of a gifted, guileless young writer into the next great crime noir. When Max and Thomas, two career c

Author : Pat Murphy,Scientists of Klutz Labs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1591746779

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Boom, Splat, Kablooey by Pat Murphy,Scientists of Klutz Labs Pdf

Kids love science experiments, especially ones that involve blowing stuff up. We've filled this book with the answers to the "hows" and "whys" of explosions. To make it even better, everything in this book is absolutely safe - from the Geyser Tube (that turns table salt and a bottle of soda into a backyard geyser) to the Klutz-custom depth charge. It's all safe... and unbelievably fun.

Author : William Meikle,John FD Taff,Bracken MacLeod,Martin Rose,Ken Altabef,Gregory L. Norris,J. Daniel Stone,Eric Del Carlo,Hugh AD Spencer,Edward Morris,Jonathan Balog,Ewan C. Forbes,Allen Griffin,Alice Goldfuss,Paul Williams,T. Fox Dunham
Publisher : Grey Matter Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ominous Realities by William Meikle,John FD Taff,Bracken MacLeod,Martin Rose,Ken Altabef,Gregory L. Norris,J. Daniel Stone,Eric Del Carlo,Hugh AD Spencer,Edward Morris,Jonathan Balog,Ewan C. Forbes,Allen Griffin,Alice Goldfuss,Paul Williams,T. Fox Dunham Pdf

We don't know what the future might hold. Until now. Offering a collection of terrifying stories of science fiction and speculative fiction horrors, Ominous Realities is a dark thrill ride to explore what might be in store for mankind. This wicked journey isn't limited by time or gravity. It takes you on an exploration of futuristic and post-Apocalyptic worlds, to experience societies where dark corporations rule, where humanity must consider terrifying alternatives, and to the dangerous realities that may be in store, dragging you through horrifying speculative scenarios that pose dire consequences for the existence of mankind. FEATURING: "How to Make a Human" by Martin Rose A race of robots with the ability to resurrect humanity after the apocalypse has dire consequences. "Angie" by John F.D. Taff A divorced couple fights for survival after society collapses and realize the horror of true devotion. "On the Threshold" by William Meikle Two scientists aiming to prove we are not alone find the danger that exists beyond the threshold. "Doyoshota" by Ken Altabef Residents of a Nevada town are suffering the debilitating effects of a strange hum and believe it's a black ops program, others are convinced of far darker origins. "Third Offense" by Gregory L. Norris In an oppressive society where advertising is all-pervasive, a factory worker attempts to escape enslavement with horrifying results. "Matamorphosis" by J. Daniel Stone Siblings discover the unique bond has the ability to affect humanity in the darkest of ways. "We are Hale, We are Whole" by Eric Del Carlo Global climate change has reshaped the world, and multi-national corporations control every aspect of life. To what horrifying lengths will they go in the struggle to maintain profit? "Pure Blood and Evergreen" by Bracken MacLeod Victims of ethnic cleansing, two boys struggle for survival only to put the lives of everyone they know in danger. "John, Paul, Xavier, Ironside and George (But not Vincent)" by Hugh A.D. Spencer Under attack by mysterious biomechanical entities, one man spends his last days with an enigmatic client who may holds the fate of Earth in his hands. "And the Hunter, Home From the Hill" by Edward Morris Are superheroes real? It could be that the old man living down the street is hiding his own dark secrets. "Born Bad" by Jonathan Balog Raised by the church, Lucien harbors a frightening secret that may have dire circumstances for mankind. "The Last Bastion of Space" by Ewan C. Forbes Privatization has run amok and simple pleasures come at a premium. For one young couple the only option is to turn their minds over to insidious corporate control. "Every Soul is a Grimoire" by Allen Griffin A shadowy government official is responsible for a man with dangerous skill that blurs reality and opens the door to terrifying evil. "From the East" by Alice Goldfuss Driven by conviction, a scientist struggles to determine the cause of a global cataclysm and finds herself in a struggle for the existence of humanity. "Deciding Identity" by Paul Williams Faced with the collision of two worlds, the citizens of each are offered the choice to decide who will live or die. "The Last Elf" by T. Fox Dunham Having spent a lifetime chasing the enemies of Nazi Germany, a sociopathic concentration camp commanderfinds himself on the verge of his crowning achievement: ultimate extermination. Proudly presented by Grey Matter Press, the multiple Bram Stoker Award-nominated independent publisher. Grey Matter Press: Where Dark Thoughts Thrive

Author : David Gilbert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781596917897

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The Normals by David Gilbert Pdf

In this critically acclaimed comic masterpiece, David Gilbert tells the story of Billy Schine, a young man who innocently enrolls in a 14-day human drug testing study and finds his normal world turned upside-down. Like a One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for the postmodern age, The Normals is a tour de force from a writer of astonishing intelligence and imagination.

Author : James F. Park
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244799670

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Owain and The Red Clawed Dragon by James F. Park Pdf

Author : John Joseph Adams,Leigh Bardugo,Dale Bailey,Helena Bell,Genevieve Valentine,E. Lily Yu,Debbie Urbanski,Nisi Shawl,Alexander Weinstein,Jeremiah Tolbert,Catherynne M. Valente,A. Merc Rustad,Greg Van Eekhout,Peter S. Beagle,Brian Evenson,N. K. Jemisin,Caroline M. Yoachim,Alice Sola Kim,Nick Wolven,Joseph Allen Hill
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544973985

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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 by John Joseph Adams,Leigh Bardugo,Dale Bailey,Helena Bell,Genevieve Valentine,E. Lily Yu,Debbie Urbanski,Nisi Shawl,Alexander Weinstein,Jeremiah Tolbert,Catherynne M. Valente,A. Merc Rustad,Greg Van Eekhout,Peter S. Beagle,Brian Evenson,N. K. Jemisin,Caroline M. Yoachim,Alice Sola Kim,Nick Wolven,Joseph Allen Hill Pdf

A collection of the best American science fiction and fantasy stories from 2016

Author : Allan Cole
Publisher : Allan Cole
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781605486819

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Wolves Of The Gods by Allan Cole Pdf

The wizard Safar Timura must lead the people to Esmir to safety while being hunted by a nameless evil and the risen-from-the-dead Iraj Protarus who is seeking revenge.

Author : Morris
Publisher : Cinebook
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781849186230

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Lucky Luke - The Complete Collection - Volume 2 by Morris Pdf

After the heavily cartoon- and slapstick cinema-inspired first adventures, Morris turned towards the tradition of Westerns to flesh out his hero’s world. In Under a Western Sky, Lucky Luke versus Pat Poker and Outlaws there is a lot of Hollywood and John Ford, and while Luke hasn’t quite settled into his current look, he’s certainly closer to the phlegmatic cowboy we know and love. Outlaws also marks the first appearance of the Daltons – the historical Dalton brothers here, who will later return as their decidedly stupider cousins. Throw in 48 pages of extra material on Morris’s experience in the United States, and this is a book you won’t want to miss.