The World Of Tomorrow

Author : Brendan Mathews
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316382205

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One whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal follows three brothers through teeming prewar New York in this "entertaining . . . outsized . . . big, expressive debut" (Wall Street Journal). June 1939. Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother, Michael, are on an ocean liner from Ireland bound for their brother Martin's home in New York City, having stolen a small fortune from the IRA. During the week that follows, the lives of these three brothers collide spectacularly with big-band jazz musicians, a talented but fragile heiress, a Jewish street photographer facing a return to Nazi-occupied Prague, a vengeful mob boss, and the ghosts of their own family's revolutionary past. When Tom Cronin, an erstwhile assassin forced into one last job, tracks the brothers down, their lives begin to fracture. Francis must surrender to blackmail or have his family suffer fatal consequences. Michael, lost and wandering alone, turns to Lilly Bloch, a heartsick artist, to recover his decimated memory. And Martin and his wife, Rosemary, try to salvage their marriage and, ultimately, the lives of the other Dempseys. Meanwhile, with the Depression receding, all of New York is suffused with an electric feeling of hope, caught up in the fervor of the World's Fair and eager for good times after a decade of deprivation. From the smoky jazz joints of Harlem to the opulent Plaza Hotel, from the garrets of vagabonds and artists in the Bowery to the backroom warrens and shadowy warehouses of mobsters in Hell's Kitchen, Brendan Mathews brings the prewar metropolis to vivid, pulsing life. The sweeping, intricate, and ambitious storytelling throughout this remarkable debut reveals an America that blithely hoped it could avoid another catastrophic war and focus instead on the promise of the World's Fair: a peaceful, prosperous "World of Tomorrow." One whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal following three brothers through teeming prewar New York in this "entertaining . . . outsized . . . big, expressive debut" (Wall Street Journal) "A masterfully crafted novel . . . Comic, violent, and moving in equal measure."-John Irving "As rich and raucous as the city it celebrates."-O., The Oprah Magazine "Admirably fearless . . . Mathews has talent in buckets."-New York Times Book Review

Author : Brian Fies
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781613122693

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Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?, the long-awaited follow-up to Mom's Cancer, is a unique graphic novel that tells the story of a young boy and his relationship with his father. Spanning the period from the 1939 New York World's Fair to the last Apollo space mission in 1975, it is told through the eyes of a boy as he grows up in an era that was optimistic and ambitious, fueled by industry, engines, electricity, rockets, and the atom bomb. An insightful look at relationships and the promise of the future, award-winning author Brian Fies presents his story in a way that only comics and graphic novels can. Interspersed with the comic book adventures of Commander Cap Crater (created by Fies to mirror the styles of the comics and the time periods he is depicting), and mixing art and historical photographs, this groundbreaking graphic novel is a lively trip through a half century of technological evolution. It is also a perceptive look at the changing moods of our nation-and the enduring promise of the future. Praise for Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? “A graphic novel that looks like TV’s “Futurama” bred with The Golden Age of Comic Books, Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? is at times charming, at times sad and foreboding, and always thought provoking.” —Air & Space Smithsonian "A hopelessly optimistic moon-age daydream"—The Village Voice “An exceptional and highly engaging experience.” —The Miami Herald "Whatever Happened To The World Of Tomorrow is a very special book that will speak to you on so many levels. And at the end of it, when you sit there and think on what you’ve just read, it may even make you, like it did me, realise that Fies’ vision of our past and his hope for the future is something we can all share in. Quite brilliant."—Richard Bruton, forbiddenplanet.co.uk F&P level: Y

Author : Don Hertzfeldt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781984855367

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The End of the World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

From the imagination of legendary animator and two-time Oscar nominee Don Hertzfeldt comes a hilarious fever-dream vision of the apocalypse, now available in wide release for the first time since the rare original edition sold out. Created during sleepless nights while he worked on his animated films, The End of the World was illustrated entirely on Post-It notes over the course of several years, slowly taking shape from all the deleted scenes, bad dreams, and abandoned ideas that were too strange to make it to the big screen, including essential early material that was later developed into the animated classic World of Tomorrow. Hertzfeldt's visually striking work transcends its unusual nature and taps into the deeply human, universal themes of mortality, identity, memory, loss, and parenthood . . . with the occasional monstrous biting eel descending from the sky.

Author : Brendan Mathews
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316382205

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One whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal following three brothers through teeming prewar New York in this "entertaining . . . outsized . . . big, expressive debut" (Wall Street Journal) "A masterfully crafted novel . . . Comic, violent, and moving in equal measure." --John Irving "As rich and raucous as the city it celebrates." --O., The Oprah Magazine "Admirably fearless . . . Mathews has talent in buckets." --New York Times Book Review June 1939. Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother, Michael, are on an ocean liner from Ireland bound for their brother Martin's home in New York City, having stolen a small fortune from the IRA. During the week that follows, the lives of these three brothers collide spectacularly with big-band jazz musicians, a talented but fragile heiress, a Jewish street photographer facing a return to Nazi-occupied Prague, a vengeful mob boss, and the ghosts of their own family's revolutionary past. When Tom Cronin, an erstwhile assassin forced into one last job, tracks the brothers down, their lives begin to fracture. Francis must surrender to blackmail or have his family suffer fatal consequences. Michael, lost and wandering alone, turns to Lilly Bloch, a heartsick artist, to recover his decimated memory. And Martin and his wife, Rosemary, try to salvage their marriage and, ultimately, the lives of the other Dempseys. Meanwhile, with the Depression receding, all of New York is suffused with an electric feeling of hope, caught up in the fervor of the World's Fair and eager for good times after a decade of deprivation. From the smoky jazz joints of Harlem to the opulent Plaza Hotel, from the garrets of vagabonds and artists in the Bowery to the backroom warrens and shadowy warehouses of mobsters in Hell's Kitchen, Brendan Mathews brings the prewar metropolis to vivid, pulsing life. The sweeping, intricate, and ambitious storytelling throughout this remarkable debut reveals an America that blithely hoped it could avoid another catastrophic war and focus instead on the promise of the World's Fair: a peaceful, prosperous "World of Tomorrow."

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Federal, State, and Community Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Demography
ISBN : PURD:32754068088131

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Aging in the World of Tomorrow Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Deutsche Bundesbank
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642566011

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Investing Today for the World of Tomorrow Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Investment is crucial to the development of a nation's economy and welfare. In contrast to the United States, investment in Europe has been quite modest over the past few years. This volume gathers together a number of papers by prominent researchers in the field of investment. It provides an overview of recent developments in this area and presents new empirical findings on the determinants and implications of the investment process in European countries. Topics include: role of taxation, uncertainty and the financial systems, as well as the relevance of corporate governance to the investment process. Two chapters are dedicated to infrastructure investment and foreign direct investment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Astronautics
ISBN : IND:30000065648622

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The World of Tomorrow, Aerospace Activities for 8-to 10-years Olds Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Federal, State, and Community Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Older people
ISBN : UOM:39015082545115

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Aging in the World of Tomorrow : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Federal, State, and Community Services of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session .. Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Stephen Wertheim
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674248663

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Tomorrow, the World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world. For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the world’s armed superpower—and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America’s transformation to the crucible of World War II, especially in the months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. As the Nazis conquered France, the architects of the nation’s new foreign policy came to believe that the United States ought to achieve primacy in international affairs forevermore. Scholars have struggled to explain the decision to pursue global supremacy. Some deny that American elites made a willing choice, casting the United States as a reluctant power that sloughed off “isolationism” only after all potential competitors lay in ruins. Others contend that the United States had always coveted global dominance and realized its ambition at the first opportunity. Both views are wrong. As late as 1940, the small coterie of officials and experts who composed the U.S. foreign policy class either wanted British preeminence in global affairs to continue or hoped that no power would dominate. The war, however, swept away their assumptions, leading them to conclude that the United States should extend its form of law and order across the globe and back it at gunpoint. Wertheim argues that no one favored “isolationism”—a term introduced by advocates of armed supremacy in order to turn their own cause into the definition of a new “internationalism.” We now live, Wertheim warns, in the world that these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned narrative that questions the wisdom of U.S. supremacy, Tomorrow, the World reveals the intellectual path that brought us to today’s global entanglements and endless wars.

Author : Kristen Lee
Publisher : Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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World of Tomorrow Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Evelyn Moore is just another disenfranchised American girl, trying to scrape by with the help of her best friend, Lily, during the Depression in New York City. When a tumultuous event cascades into a roller coaster series of them a few short weeks before the grand opening of the much anticipated 1939 World’s Fair, Evelyn worries how she’ll survive, even more so when she realizes that her every near miss ends up that way by the deliberate effort of her new and complicated boss, Andrew James. Cool, collected and complicated, Andrew James is the wunderkind behind much of his family and employer’s success but knowing the ropes so well you can always pull all the strings is only so rewarding. When Evelyn unexpectedly tumbles into his life, he finds himself pushed outside his wheelhouse and peering into a new and delightfully intriguing unknown, one with a future he relishes. A world of tomorrow.

Author : Kevin Conran
Publisher : Dynamite Entertainment
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1524107476

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(Kevin Conran's) the Art of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow HC Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

SKY CAPTAIN & THE WORLD OF TOMORROW burst into the sky and onto theater screens in 2004. With it came groundbreaking methods and techniques that would change the way movies were made. The real story behind the film began many years earlier and in Kevin Conran's Art of Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow, fans will be treated to behind-the-scenes stories marking the movie's unique journey to the screen. As the first of its kind, this landmark film embraced the look and feel of the old serials even as it pushed the boundaries of modern filmmaking technology. The film would inspire a whole new generation of creators eager to adopt its innovative techniques--techniques that are now commonplace in every studio in Hollywood and around the world. Featuring the revolutionary artistic contributions of the film's principle visual architect, this stunning collection of Kevin Conran's trailblazing illustrations and designs includes incomplete, unpublished and never-before-seen work. This comprehensive retrospective is the first official collection of the film's artwork sourced from Kevin Conran's private collection and spanning over 20 years of the movie's history.

Author : Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Radio
ISBN : UOM:39015068324451

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Small Radio, Yesterday and in the World of Tomorrow... Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher : Onyx Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Movie novels
ISBN : 0451411633

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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Based on the upcoming film from Paramount Pictures starring Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow, set for release on July 25. In 1939 New York City, Joe Sullivan, leader of the heroic Flying Legion, must save the day when gigantic mechanical robots are unleashed upon the world. Original.

Author : Bill Cotter
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0738565342

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The 1939-1940 New York World's Fair Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

After enduring 10 harrowing years of the Great Depression, visitors to the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair found welcome relief in the fair's optimistic presentation of the "World of Tomorrow." Pavilions from America's largest corporations and dozens of countries were spread across a 1,216-acre site, showcasing the latest industrial marvels and predictions for the future intermingled with cultural displays from around the world. Well known for its theme structures, the Trylon and Perisphere, the fair was an intriguing mixture of technology, science, architecture, showmanship, and politics. Proclaimed by many as the most memorable world's fair ever held, it predicted wonderful times were ahead for the world even as the clouds of war were gathering. Through vintage photographs, most never published before, The 1939-1940 New York World's Fair recaptures those days when the eyes of the world were on New York and on the future.

Author : David A. Hanks,Anne Hoy
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Design
ISBN : UCSD:31822035237023

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American Streamlined Design Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"The twentieth century loved machines and the speed they made possible. Speeding cars, trains, and planes promised to conquer space and time; their aerodynamic styling and metal skins embodied a new and modern beauty, one that especially enchanted American designers from the late 1920s through the 1950s. Streamlining became the popular American style for all sorts of objects: from toy scooters to typewriters, from power tools to teakettles." "This book celebrates this beauty as epitomized by the work of Raymond Loewy, Kem Weber, Henry Dreyfuss, Norman Bel Geddes, as well as in works by many lesser-known industrial designers whose products are presented here for the first time. The book also demonstrates the resurgence of interest in streamlining among international vanguard designers from the 1980s to the present." "This volume is illustrated with patent drawings and period photographs showing how these dynamically styled objects were used. The one hundred eighty objects presented here, drawn from the Eric Brill Collection (recently donated to the American Friends of Canada) and supplemented by pieces from the Stewart Collection at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, were photographed for this book. A full bibliography, biographies of the designers, and index complete the study."--BOOK JACKET.