Unbored

Author : Joshua Glenn,Elizabeth Foy Larsen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781408830253

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Unbored by Joshua Glenn,Elizabeth Foy Larsen Pdf

Unbored is the book every modern child needs. Brilliantly walking the line between cool and constructive, it's crammed with activities that are not only fun and doable but that also get kids standing on their own two feet. If you're a kid, you can: -- Build a tipi or an igloo -- Learn to knit -- Take stuff apart and fix it -- Find out how to be constructively critical -- Film a stop-action movie or edit your own music -- Do parkour like James Bond -- Make a little house for a mouse from lollipop sticks -- Be independent! Catch a bus solo or cook yourself lunch -- Make a fake exhaust for your bike so it sounds like you're revving up a motorcycle -- Design a board game -- Go camping (or glamping) -- Plan a road trip -- Get proactive and support the causes you care about -- Develop your taste and decorate your own room -- Make a rocket from a coke bottle -- Play farting games There are gross facts and fascinating stories, reports on what stuff is like (home schooling, working in an office...), Q&As with inspiring grown-ups, extracts from classic novels, lists of useful resources and best ever lists like the top clean rap songs, stop-motion movies or books about rebellion. Just as kids begin to disappear into their screens, here is a book that encourages them to use those tech skills to be creative, try new things and change the world. And it gets parents to join in. Unbored is fully illustrated, easy to use and appealing to young and old, girl and boy. Parents will be comforted by its anti-perfectionist spirit and humour. Kids will just think it's brilliant.

Author : Joshua Glenn,Elizabeth Foy Larsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781632860460

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UNBORED Games by Joshua Glenn,Elizabeth Foy Larsen Pdf

UNBORED Games has all the smarts, creativity, and DIY spirit of the original UNBORED (“It's a book! It's a guide! It's a way of life!” -Los Angeles Magazine), but with a laser-like focus on the activities we do for pure fun: to while away a rainy day, to test our skills and stretch our imaginations-games. There are more than seventy games here, 50 of them all new, plus many more recommendations, and they cover the full gambit, from old-fashioned favorites to today's high-tech games. The book offers a gold mine of creative, constructive fun: intricate clapping games, bike rodeo, Google Earth challenges, croquet golf, capture the flag, and the best ever apps to play with Grandma, to name only a handful. Gaming is a whole culture for kids to explore, and the book will be complete with gaming history and interviews with awesome game designers. The lessons here: all games can be self-customized, or hacked. You can even make up your own games. Some could even change the world. The original UNBORED has taken its place as a much beloved, distinctly contemporary family brand. UNBORED Games extends the franchise -- also including UNBORED Adventure -- in a new handy flexibound format, illustrated in full color throughout. This is a whole shelf of serious fun the whole family can enjoy indoors, outdoors, online and offline.

Author : Joshua Glenn,Elizabeth Foy Larsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781632860972

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UNBORED Adventure by Joshua Glenn,Elizabeth Foy Larsen Pdf

UNBORED Adventure has all the smarts, innovation, and free-wheeling spirit of the original UNBORED and its 2014 spinoff, UNBORED Games, but with a fresh focus on encouraging kids to break out of their techno-passivity and explore the world around them--whether that's a backyard, a downtown, or a forest. Combining old-fashioned favorites with today's high-tech possibilities, the book offers a goldmine of creative, constructive activities that kids can do on their own or with their families. From camouflage techniques, survival skills, and cloudspotting advice to instructions on how to build an upcycled kite or raft, to using apps to navigate and explore, it's all here--along with comics that dive into the secret history of everything from bicycling to women explorers. A fun corrective to our over-anxious parenting culture, UNBORED Adventure encourages kids to become more independent and resilient, to solve problems and ask questions, and to engage with both their community and natural environment. The original UNBORED is already a much beloved, distinctly contemporary family brand. Along with UNBORED Games, UNBORED Adventure extends the franchise in a handy, flexibound format so that the whole family can enjoy themselves indoors, outdoors, online, and offline. *Los Angeles Magazine

Author : Joshua Glenn,Elizabeth Foy Larsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1620406411

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Unbored by Joshua Glenn,Elizabeth Foy Larsen Pdf

Since it's publication in 2012,Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Funhas been a favorite of parents and kids alike: ahuge,jam-packedbookoffun for smart and adventurous families, with activities for outdoors and indoors, embracing time-honored traditions and the latest technology. Now, kids can get the best of Unbored in a size and shape that's just for them-a book to take into the field with no chaperone required. With approximately seventy-five activities, covering the ground from Goofing Off to Expressing Yourself, from Getting Crafty to Making Your Own Media, this kids activity guide is seriously fun: a new way to get unbored on the go!

Author : Jackie Barrie
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780956593368

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Experiential Speaking by Jackie Barrie Pdf

Attention spans are dropping. Audience members expect to be included. Clients increasingly request interaction. As a speaker, trainer, presenter or facilitator who can truly engage your audience, you'll get better results, better feedback and more bookings. In this book, you'll find ideas for icebreakers and revision exercises, ways to break big groups into smaller ones, audience voting methods that are more imaginative than a simple show of hands, and more, much more. All the exercises are creative, fun and easy to run. They're adaptable to suit your own learning outcomes. And they mean your audience will be more engaged and therefore more likely to remember your message.

Author : Joshua Glenn,Rob Walker
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9781606995259

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Significant Objects by Joshua Glenn,Rob Walker Pdf

100 EXTRAORDINARY STORIES ABOUT ORDINARY THINGS SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS: A Literary and Economic Experiment Can a great story transform a worthless trinket into a significant object? The Significant Objects project set out to answer that question once and for all, by recruiting a highly impressive crew of creative writers to invent stories about an unimpressive menagerie of items rescued from thrift stores and yard sales. That secondhand flotsam definitely becomes more valuable: sold on eBay, objects originally picked up for a buck or so sold for thousands of dollars in total — making the project a sensation in the literary blogosphere along the way. But something else happened, too: The stories created were astonishing, a cavalcade of surprising responses to the challenge of manufacturing significance. Who would have believed that random junk could inspire so much imagination? The founders of the Significant Objects project, that’s who. This book collects 100 of the finest tales from this unprecedented creative experiment; you’ll never look at a thrift-store curiosity the same way again. FEATURING ORIGINAL STORIES BY: Chris Adrian • Rob Agredo • Kurt Andersen • Rachel Axler • Rob Baedeker • Nicholson Baker • Rosecrans Baldwin • Matthew Battles • Charles Baxter • Kate Bernheimer • Susanna Breslin • Kevin Brockmeier • Matt Brown • Blake Butler • Meg Cabot • Tim Carvell • Patrick Cates • Dan Chaon • Susanna Daniel • Adam Davies • Kathryn Davis • Matthew De Abaitua • Stacey • D'Erasmo • Helen DeWitt • Doug Dorst • Mark Doty • Ben Ehrenreich • Mark Frauenfelder • Amy Fusselman • William Gibson • Myla Goldberg • Ben Greenman • Jason Grote • Jim Hanas • Jennifer Michael Hecht • Sheila Heti • Christine Hill • Dara Horn • Shelley Jackson • Heidi Julavits • Ben Katchor • Matt Klam • Wayne Koestenbaum • Josh Kramer • Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer • Neil LaBute • Victor LaValle • J. Robert Lennon • Jonathan Lethem • Todd Levin • Laura Lippman • Mimi Lipson • Robert Lopez • Joe Lyons • Sarah Manguso • Merrill Markoe • Tom McCarthy • Miranda Mellis • Lydia Millet • Maud Newton • Annie Nocenti • Stephen O’Connor • Stewart O’Nan • Jenny Offill • Gary Panter • Ed Park • James Parker • Benjamin Percy • Mark Jude Poirier • Padgett Powell • Bob Powers • Todd Pruzan • Dan Reines • Nathaniel Rich • Peter Rock • Lucinda Rosenfeld • Greg Rowland • Luc Sante • R.K. Scher • Toni Schlesinger • Matthew Sharpe • Jim Shepard • David Shields • Marisa Silver • Curtis Sittenfeld • Bruce Sterling • Scarlett Thomas • Jeff Turrentine • Deb Olin Unferth • Tom Vanderbilt • Matthew J. Wells • Joe Wenderoth • Margaret Wertheim • Colleen Werthmann • Colson Whitehead • Carl Wilson • Cintra Wilson • Sari Wilson • Douglas Wolk • John Wray

Author : Gerard Fowke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UCBK:C006937278

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Archeological Investigations--II by Gerard Fowke Pdf

Author : Joshua Glenn,Carol Hayes
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 1568986904

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Taking Things Seriously by Joshua Glenn,Carol Hayes Pdf

"This is a book about the things that inspire all of us, from the sacred to the profane, from everyday objects like a marble or a rubber stamp, to the more surprising such as a dirt pile or a turtle tail. Artists, writers, designers, among many others, contribute their objects and ruminations that encourage, motivate, and energize their own creativity."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Joshua Glenn,Mark Kingwell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780228009481

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The Adventurer's Glossary by Joshua Glenn,Mark Kingwell Pdf

Adventure is always escapist and often utopian, yet we find solidarity with others and Kafkaesque existential rabbit holes within the words we use to celebrate high-flying escapades. Even when adventures are small in the cosmic scope, the terminology of thrilling exploits promotes a life lived at a high pitch. This go-to glossary for the philosophical explorer delves into these contradictions and insights through more than five hundred terms, from A-OK to zoom. Semiotician Joshua Glenn sourced terms from Shakespeare, military and biker jargon, hip hop and surfer slang, survivalist and gamer subcultures, comic books, extreme sports, and beyond to ask questions about meaning and selfhood. This diverting survey, paired with copious illustrations by the acclaimed cartoonist Seth, is introduced by Mark Kingwell in a thought-provoking essay. The Adventurer’s Glossary extends the entertaining and incisive critique found in the trio’s previous books, The Idler’s Glossary and The Wage Slave’s Glossary. This third instalment turns its lens to the language of risk, excitement, and journeying into the unknown, taking readers on their own semantic adventure.

Author : Joshua Glenn
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780262543378

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Voices from the Radium Age by Joshua Glenn Pdf

A collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century by authors ranging from Arthur Conan Doyle to W. E. B. Du Bois. This collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century features work by the famous (Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes), the no-longer famous (“weird fiction" pioneer William Hope Hodgson), and the should-be-more famous (Bengali feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain). It offers stories by writers known for concerns other than science fiction (W. E. B. Du Bois, author of The Souls of Black Folk) and by writers known only for pulp science fiction (the prolific Neil R. Jones). These stories represent what volume and series editor Joshua Glenn has dubbed “the Radium Age”—the period when science fiction as we know it emerged as a genre. The collection shows that nascent science fiction from this era was prescient, provocative, and well written. Readers will discover, among other delights, a feminist utopia predating Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland by a decade in Hossain’s story, “Sultana’s Dream”; a world in which the human population has retreated underground, in E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”; an early entry in the Afrofuturist subgenre in Du Bois’s last-man-on-Earth tale, “The Comet”; and the first appearance of Jones’s cryopreserved Professor Jameson, who despairs at Earth’s wreckage but perseveres—in a metal body—to appear in thirty-odd more stories.

Author : Kathy Ceceri
Publisher : Nomad Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781936749799

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Robotics by Kathy Ceceri Pdf

Once, robots were only found in science fiction books and movies. Today, robots are everywhere! They assemble massive cars and tiny computer chips. They help doctors do delicate surgery. They vacuum our houses and mow our lawns. Robot toys play with us, follow our commands, and respond to our moods. We even send robots to explore the depths of the ocean and the expanse of space. In Robotics, children ages 9 and up learn how robots affect both the future and the present. Hands-on activities make learning both fun and lasting.

Author : Joshua Glenn
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781926845562

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The Wage Slave's Glossary by Joshua Glenn Pdf

When The Idler's Glossary was released in October 2008 the world was on the cusp of experiencing its greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression. Depending on your sense of irony, this was either foolhardy or prescient. The Wage Slave's Glossary, a second volume of anti-economic etymology, comes as we climb out of recession, and continues to explore and challenge the interconnected world of work and leisure and labor and how the language we use continues to keep us in chains.

Author : Greta Rasmussen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Education
ISBN : 093611004X

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The Great Unbored Bulletin Board Book, II by Greta Rasmussen Pdf

Author : R. K. Bansal
Publisher : Laxmi Publications
Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Strength of materials
ISBN : 8170081475

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A Text Book of Strength of Materials by R. K. Bansal Pdf

Author : R. K. Bansal
Publisher : Laxmi Publications
Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Strains and stresses
ISBN : 8131808149

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A Textbook of Strength of Materials by R. K. Bansal Pdf