Author: Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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An encyclopedia of oddities features unexpected and unimaginable people, places, and creatures from around the world.

Author: Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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An illustrated collection of oddities that are sure to shock the reader.

Author: Geoff Tibballs
Publisher: Ripley Publishing
ISBN: 9781893951228
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Presents an illustrated collection of unusual phenomena and oddities, grouped into such categories as curious creations, incredible animals, fantastic feats, and unusual tales.

Author: Geoff Tibballs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: Amanda Ripley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145165443X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Following three teenagers who chose to spend one school year living in Finland, South Korea, and Poland, a literary journalist recounts how attitudes, parenting, and rigorous teaching have revolutionized these countries' education results.

Author: Ripley's
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781422220207
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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This collection provides examples of natural and created oddities.

Author: Cory Doctorow
Publisher: Tor Teen
ISBN: 1466805870
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state. A few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus's hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. It's incendiary stuff—and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier. Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him—but he can't admit to being the leaker, because that will cost his employer the election. He's surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him as a hacker hero. He can't even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. He's not at all sure that just dumping the archive onto the Internet, before he's gone through its millions of words, is the right thing to do. Meanwhile, people are beginning to shadow him, people who look like they're used to inflicting pain until they get the answers they want. Fast-moving, passionate, and as current as next week, Homeland is every bit the equal of Little Brother—a paean to activism, to courage, to the drive to make the world a better place. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author: Ripley Publishing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781422220573
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Bryan Berg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439188734
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Written by the holder of several Guinness World Records for cardstacking, this is the first complete, fully illustrated guide to the art of building mind-boggling, multilevel structures with ordinary playing cards. In Stacking the Deck, Bryan Berg reveals the secret to successful cardstacking with his simple four-card-cell structure and expanded grid techniques. Using illustrations and step-by-step instructions, he guides readers on to more elaborate -- and incredibly strong -- creations. He covers a wide range of architectural styles, from classic to whimsical, and various types of structures, including pyramids, shrines, stadiums, churches, an oil derrick, and even the Empire State Building. Since first setting the height record in 1992, Bryan's built awe-inspiring card models of a Japanese shrine, the Iowa State Capitol building, Ebbets Field, and his latest tower, which is more than twenty-five feet tall! This book includes photographs of some of these amazing pieces, illustrating just how appealing and enduring a "house of cards" can be. Stacking the Deck will inspire everyone from youngsters experimenting with their first deck of cards to adults, who can create their own private skyscrapers. Once you've read Stacking the Deck, you'll never look at a deck of cards the same way again.

Author: Ripley Publishing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781422220269
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Read about interesting facts, people, and oddities from around the world.