Luke Billings loved his life. He just married his longtime girlfriend, Sara, and recently returned from their honeymoon. Unfortunately, their time as husband and wife would be short-lived. A few hours after returning home, Luke was standing out in his driveway talking to his best friend, Rob, when they thought they heard an unusual noise come from within the surrounding forest. Luke was then pulled into the woods by some unknown force, causing Rob to run in after him. To Rob's horror, however, Luke was nowhere to be found. Once he came to, Luke opened his eyes and returned home, only to find his world completely flipped upside down. A strange couple was now living in his house, while Rob and Sara, along with his personal belongings and car, were all gone. After getting arrested for trespassing, Luke became fast friends with the arresting officer, Steven. With him, Luke also enlisted the help of a woman named Olivia to uncover the truth about what happened to him. But the more Luke dug for clues about his disappearance, the farther down the rabbit hole he went. Unbeknownst to him, however, the "truth" would eventually lead him to make the hardest decision of his life.
Sam Watson is your average, everyday guy. He's kind of a nerd, is about to become a video game store manager, and isn't all that outgoing. That is until one day when he discovers a strange, metallic object in the river. Little does he know that the tennis ball-sized sphere is not of this Earth. He doesn't figure that out until an alien woman comes for him and the sphere so that she can deliver it safely back to its planet of origin. Once Sam comes to terms with everything that's going on, he winds up going on an epic adventure through another galaxy, where he visits other planets and meets many different alien species. In the process, he also uncovers a secret alien plot that's been kept under wraps for thousands of years. Plus, he finally winds up coming out of his shell. Will Sam survive the encounter? Will he make it back home alive? Does he fall madly in love with the alien woman? Of course, in order to get your own answers, you must take the journey yourself.
Luke Billings loved his life. He just married his longtime girlfriend, Sara, and recently returned from their honeymoon. Unfortunately, their time as husband and wife would be short-lived. A few hours after returning home, Luke was standing out in his driveway talking to his best friend, Rob, when they thought they heard an unusual noise come from within the surrounding forest. Luke was then pulled into the woods by some unknown force, causing Rob to run in after him. To Rob's horror, however, Luke was nowhere to be found. Once he came to, Luke opened his eyes and returned home, only to find his world completely flipped upside down. A strange couple was now living in his house, while Rob and Sara, along with his personal belongings and car, were all gone. After getting arrested for trespassing, Luke became fast friends with the arresting officer, Steven. With him, Luke also enlisted the help of a woman named Olivia to uncover the truth about what happened to him. But the more Luke dug for clues about his disappearance, the farther down the rabbit hole he went. Unbeknownst to him, however, the "truth" would eventually lead him to make the hardest decision of his life.
This book, the second in the series following Really Good Logos Explained, addresses the elements of effective packaging vs. packages that aren’t successful and what makes a particular design more powerful or attention-getting than others.Four well respected design professionals—each of whom will specialize in the area of product packaging—evaluate the 300+ design examples in the book. Each author provides specific and to-the-point observations and critiques.
The Flyer Vault: 150 Years of Toronto Concert History captures over 150 years of Toronto concert history through a visually stunning collection of flyers, posters, and advertisements.
Global building and construction cultures are hard-wired to constructing too much, too badly, with major social and ecological consequences. Rob Imrie calls us to build less and to build better as a pre-requisite for enhancing welfare and well-being.
Rob Paulsen is one of Hollywood’s busiest, most talented, and most passionate performers. If you don’t know him by name, you will know him by the many characters he has brought to life: Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, Yakko from Animaniacs, the tough but loveable Raphael from the original animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and many more. So you can imagine how terrifying it must have been when Rob was diagnosed with throat cancer, putting his entire livelihood in jeopardy and threatening to rob the world of all his loveable characters that filled our youths and adulthoods with humor and delight. Voice Lessons tells the heartwarming and life-affirming story of Rob’s experience with an aggressive cancer treatment and recovery regimen, which luckily led to a full recovery. Rob quickly returned to doing what he loves most, but with a much deeper appreciation of what he came so close to losing. His new lease on life inspired him to rededicate himself to his fans, particularly the new friends he made along the way: hundreds of sick children and their families. Rob said it best himself: “I can not only continue to make a living, but make a difference, and I can’t wait to use that on the biggest scale that I can.”
The Celebrity Locator provides the addresses to our complete database of Movie Stars, TV Stars, Authors, Politicians, Rock Stars, Athletes, and Other Famous People! If a person is famous or worth locating, it's almost certain their regular address (almost 12000) agents, representive, or web site can be found in here.
Economist Rob Larson combines wit, righteous anger, and clear-eyed analysis as he dissects the lifestyle, moral bankruptcy, and stupidly large sums of money hoarded by the disgustingly wealthy. The fact that we live in one of the most unequal societies in the history of the world is becoming common knowledge. And while lists of “richest people in x country” may be easy to come by, how much do we really know about the billionaires who sit atop our global economic system? Who are they, really? How did they accumulate their ill-gotten gains? And what kind of depravities do they use to maintain their positions? Turning their own weapons of class-war against them—from the fawning profiles found in the Mansion section of the Wall Street Journal to the national income data buried in white papers meant solely for investors and technocrats—Larson crunches the numbers so you don’t have to. But he doesn’t stop there, because appreciating the sheer scale of the global wealth gap doesn’t even touch on all the ways the ruling class are making us miserable, breaking our society to pieces, and destroying the planet in their pursuit of ever-increasing power and profit. As we behold whole continents on fire, pandemics thrashing public health systems to smithereens, and declining lifespans for the vast majority, Larson argues that the only way forward is to yank on the emergency break and give capitalism the boot.
Todd Haynes's films are intricate and purposeful, combining the intellectual impact of art cinema with the emotional accessibility of popular genres. They are also underpinned by a serious commitment to feminism and queer theory. From his 1985 student film about Arthur Rimbaud to his shapeshifting portrait of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There (2007) and the riveting HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011), Haynes has made films whose complex weave of stories and characters reveals dark, painful intensities. His taste for narrative experimentation and pastiche is haunted by anguish. Rob White's highly readable book, which includes a major new interview with Haynes, is the first comprehensive study of the director's work. Special attention is paid to the fascination with music culture (from the Carpenters to glam rock) and to the rich pattern of allusions to, or affinity with, predecessor filmmakers (Fassbinder, Ophuls, Sirk, and many more). But White's chief concern is the persistence of a queer impulse to explore social coercion and the possibility that there may be some way of escaping its cruelty.
Living big—for less—in America's capital Living big in America’s capital takes just the sort of big bucks that fewer and fewer folks have at their disposal these days, right? Think again. Washington, D.C., is full of free and ridiculously cheap stuff—one just needs to know where to look. Leave it to “The Cheap Bastard” to uncover all the ins and outs and exclusive bargains to be had, and to set forth the real deal with wit and humor. The Cheap Bastard’s Guide to Washington, D.C. contains hundreds of ideas for living on the cheap without sacrificing necessities or luxuries. It shows: • How to gain free entrance to plays, films, concerts, and museums • Where to find free classes in anything from yoga to sailing • Where to find half-price meals and free, filling, scrumptious food • How to get a free haircut, color treatment, manicure, or low-cost massage • When and where to find great furnishings in other people’s trash With The Cheap Bastard’s Guide to Washington, D.C., anyone—from students and recent graduates to frugal businesspeople, not to mention the capital’s millions of recession-weary annual visitors—can enjoy the good life . . . for less!
Collectible Meals are an entertaining and educational new hobby. Filled with menus ranging from the first Thanksgiving to the last meal of Timothy McVeigh, this collection makes recreating famous meals a fascinating way to share a moment in history.
Nathan Flannery, is a crusty old man living in Wilson, Kansas on a nine thousand acre lake with a few hundred of his closest friends. He solved the logistics industry's cost problem, a couple trillion dollar solution. This is the story of how he parlayed those gains into the making all the places old people aspire to call home. Hedge Funds are examined, dissected and faulted for not doing much to solve problems necessary to create gains.
A visually stunning account of bygone days in the Everglades transports readers to the remote, half-wild frontier of southwest Florida in the early part of the twentieth century. Reprint.
In Psychedelia and Other Colours, acclaimed author Rob Chapman explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD, from the earliest experiments in painting with light and immersive environments to the thriving avant-garde scene that existed in San Francisco even before the Grateful Dead and the Fillmore Auditorium. In the UK, he documents an entirely different history, and one that has never been told before. It has its roots in fairy tales and fairgrounds, the music hall and the dead of Flanders fields, in the Festival of Britain and that peculiarly British strand of surrealism that culminated in the Magical Mystery Tour. Sitars and Sergeant Pepper, surfadelica and the Soft Machine, light shows and love-ins - the mind-expanding effects of acid were to redefine popular culture as we know it. Psychedelia and Other Colours documents these utopian reverberations - and the dark side of their moon - in a perfect portrait.
Featured in the film Twenty Feet From Stardom, the woman whose voice the New York Times said "is as embedded in the history of rock 'n' roll as Eric Clapton's guitar and Bob Dylan's lyrics" tells her story Right out of high school, Darlene Love began singing lead vocals for legendary producer Phil Spector, cutting such classic hits as the number one "He's a Rebel," "Da Doo Ron Ron," and "He's Sure the Boy I Love." As part of the girl group the Blossoms, she held a regular spot on television's Shindig!, and with Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans she toured the country. Later, she sang backup—and collected numerous scintillating backstage stories—with, among others, Dionne Warwick, the Mamas and the Papas, and Sonny and Cher. Now in My Name Is Love, Darlene is ready to tell her tales about Elvis coming on to her backstage during his famous '68 Comeback Special, about wild parties she witnessed at Tom Jones's house, and about her love affair with Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers. She also recalls how she found herself cleaning houses in Beverly Hills, heard herself on the radio, and vowed to make a comeback. That comeback has included roles in all of the Lethal Weapon movies, starring roles on Broadway, and headlining concert appearances worldwide. A dishy, behind-the-scenes showbiz memoir, My Name Is Love is also the inspiring story of a woman who refused to give up.
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